Toronto Star: China defends new mandatory filtering software

Excerpted from Toronto Star:

The New York-based non-governmental organization, Human Rights in China, which provided a translation of the document on the internet, cited another government document from the software provider's website that boasted that there have already been about 2.2 million installations of the software on computers in Chinese elementary and high schools.

It also noted that the software was jointly developed by Beijing Dazheng Human Language Technology Company and the Jinhui Computer System Engineering Company.

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For more information on this issue:

• Human Rights in China, Chinese Lawyer Challenges Filtering Software Order and Requests Public Hearing, June 11, 2009
• Human Rights in China, Chinese Government Orders Computer Manufacturers to Pre-install Filtering Software, June 8, 2009
• Information about the Global Network Initiative (GNI)
• GNI statement on Green Dam Youth Escort directive: "GNI Principles Offer Guidance to ICT Manufacturing and Software Sector"