July 2, 2009

China delays Green Dam initiation

by Alan Harten
China has placed a temporary delay on the country wide installation of a new Internet filtering software hours before it was set to deploy, according to state media sources. Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, stated that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology delayed the launch, citing the extensive time required for the full pre-installation to complete. The news source did not release a new timetable for the software installation but ...