Comments on: “The Green Dam Phenomenon: Governments everywhere are treading on Web freedoms”

By: Head Geek

Head Geek — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:11:40 +0000

Given the enormous history of Chinese knockoffs, maybe that counts as home-grown there.

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:53:33 +0000

It wasn’t home-grown though, it was partially pirated!

By: Head Geek

Head Geek — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:07:44 +0000

The whole point to Green Dam was that it was home-grown Chinese software, so they could trust it. Would you want your dictatorial regime's first-line censorship system to be dependent on software designed and built in a democracy?

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:50:20 +0000

Nah, China doesn’t care about that too much, and if they did, they are surely capable of writing something or hiring a firm to do it for them. (They pay a lot to major western corporations for their “great firewall of China” already.)

By: Head Geek

Head Geek — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:33:57 +0000

It's likely that they backed down because the Green Dam software is bug-riddled crap (and stolen bug-riddled crap on top of that), rather than for any human-rights reasons.

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:06:38 +0000

I emailed you about the Chinese “Green Dam” being reversed, China decided not to go through with it, for the time being. I was surprised, frankly, I didn’t expect that China would care considering how much censorship they do already…