Government officials in south-east China have ordered workers to cover a 1,000 ft long steel bridge in butter to prevent citizens from using it to attempt suicide. [via Curious? Read]
All the climbable surfaces on the structure in Guangzhou have been covered in greasy fat to put an end to the spate of people threatening to [...]
It’s been several months since China backed off from its hotly contested Green Dam filtering software. The Chinese government, in a unilateral mandate, decided that it wanted all manufacturers to install faulty filtering software onto every computer sold, triggering a hotbed of international criticism, ranging from software security to freedom of speech arguments.
However, while the [...]
At some point while you were still young in school, I’m sure you dreamed about arriving at school in your own flying machine. It could be a plane, a flying skateboard, or even a helicopter. But you didn’t do anything about it, because, well, you were in second grade.
Unlike you, though, Wu Zhongyuan of [...]
What is internet addiction camp? It’s something kind of like the Chinese equivalent of the infamous American fat camp – parents send their kids to a “tough environment” in hopes of ridding them of an addiction, whether it is food or World of Warcraft. Of course, it’s debatable whether these things actually work. On one [...]
According to Reuters, the Chinese Ministry of Health has banned electro-shock therapy for the treatment of Internet Addiction after it came to light that a doctor named Yang Yongxin (also known as “Uncle Yang”) has wired up as many as 3,000 teenagers in his Internet Addiction Treatment Center at Linyi Mental Hospital. The treatment included [...]
For the last decade, China has been fighting – and largely losing – a running battle against the internet, and the free access to information it brings. Its recent insistence on pushing the Green Dam Youth Escort software, an internet content filter, marks its desperate, and ultimately futile pursuit for complete information control.
If it had [...]
Google has yet again done something to bring down the ire of the Chinese media officials. The Chinese government has accused Google of “spreading profanity” (aka porn), and yesterday night, cut off access to the service entirely.
Now that’s twice China has used pornography as a catalyst for going after something on the Internet, the [...]
How did we have revolutions before Twitter? It seems like democracy is an inevitable result of Internet access, something that officials in Iran and China are now both fumbling with at their peril. As we watch both nations’ ham-handed efforts at cramming the Internet genie back into the bottle, it’s obvious that connected people are [...]
From Engadget:
We’re not exactly supportive of the Chinese government requiring new PCs to be imported with content-filtering software, but like we keep saying, karma’s a bitch: CyberSitter developer Solid Oak says it’s found stolen code inside the Green Dam Youth Escort filtering software mandated by Chinese authorities, and it’s considering filing a lawsuit to halt [...]
According to PC Magazine (via Reuters)
The Chinese government has required that personal computer makers bundle a software that filters Internet content from July 1, according to a Ministry of Industry and Information Technology document seen by Reuters. The free “Green Dam-Youth Escort” software, developed by Jinhui Computer System Engineering Co, can effectively filter “unhealthy words and images,” the document [...]
