PC manufacturers have received a notice from the Chinese government recently urged to pre-installed on all handsets sold or imported into China after next July 1, a new software developed specifically to block certain Internet content to this way can not access personal computers.
In summary, in my own words "If you want your piece of the pie in the growing and lucrative market for PC sales in China, you must help us to censor content, including our personal software on computers you please sell in our territory and our citizens. Our country, our rules. "
Of course the words of the government are much softer, diplomatic and politically correct. The official and acknowledged intention of this new program called "Dock Green" is "to build an Internet environment green, healthy and harmonious, preventing harmful information from the network influence and poison the young" green
The term refers to an environment free of pornography. That sounds nice, but the little program has already put the willies more than one.
And China has with a market of 300 million Internet users, which last year sold more than 40 million personal computers, despite the economic downturn that figure is expected to increase by 3% this year.
With these data of potential buyers, that make your mouth water to any company, manufacturers are concerned about the new regulations. Meanwhile
already who cares because this software in addition to blocking pornographic content will also serve for the government to further control the contents of another nature that people prefer not to access, especially politically sensitive material to the government. See, everything about with pro-Tibet movement, the religious organization Falun Gong, and silenced the familiar events of Tian An Men, and any other information you feel uncomfortable or nervous at the party.
But what will work exactly how this new sensor?
As the government has said that PC makers must have the software on your computer, preinstalled on your system or attached to a CD. They must also inform the government of the number of computers that have shipped with the software ready. According to the memo sent to the manufacturers' computers to be pre-installing the latest version of software "Dock Green" before being sold in China " But the information reveals penalties for not complying with the requirement.
For its part, the manufacturers claim that 6 weeks is not enough time to adapt to the new regulation would also allow the government to monitor the computers and access to personal information of users.
The truth is that the brains of the match looked to have invented this new form of Censor at Home, which takes the digital control to a new level. And of course, the software is updated regularly to keep up to date content to every good citizen should not access.
And of course, manufacturers will go through the hoop, as it has been Google, which removed prohibited political content of their searches, allowing Microsoft censors block the content of your blog service, and Yahoo has been openly criticized for disclosing certain personal information from a user that was used to imprison a journalist, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The fact is that the government has the upper hand, and nobody wants to lose their piece of the Chinese (which is great) as multinationals and big corporations give budge ignoring the interests of users and ignoring their rights and to common sense, and contribute their bit for society that China is not social progress on as fast as it should. Is whether, in the economic going like a shot. But, although that is another story, in my opinion, one can not grow independently of each other.
Supposedly this "Dock Green" comes with the possibility of shutting down and neutralize their effects on your computer ... but given the circumstances, I do not know if believe it.
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