Has China's Green Dam Burst?
Chinese officials had previously stood firm in their decision to enforce the Green Dam requirement, but then China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced on Tuesday it had decided to delay mandatory installation of Green Dam, according to Reuters . Researchers at the University of Michigan found that Green Dam regularly restricted access to Web pages containing words related to Falun Gong — a semi-religious movement that has been branded a cult by the Chinese government. Protests against Green Dam also came from prominent Chinese figures like Ai Weiwei — the architect of the Olympic “Bird’s Nest″ stadium — who asked his Twitter followers to boycott the Internet for a full twenty-four hours on July 1. CNN reports that despite the Chinese decision to have Green Dam either installed on the computer or included as a CD-ROM with machines sold after today, many PC makers were not going to be able to meet the deadline.