• By John Herrman
    Jun 12, 2009 5:01 AM 13,280
    read more: #censorship, #chinapornfilter, #porn, #webfilters, #china, #green, #damyouth, #escort

    Surprise! China's Porn Filter Has Political Opinions

    The weirdly naive Green Dam-Youth Escort web filter project, which was almost certainly initiated because a government official caught his kid looking at really weird porn on time, doesn't just alert at ladyboobs; as some had predicted, it's being used to censor politically sensitive material. Of course, China's been doing this server-side for years. [WSJ]


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