My understanding is that Green Dam is client-side, and actually Windows-only (good news for Red Flag Linux perhaps?).<br><br>I have no idea if the gateway-side Great Firewall of China has been updated since Harald's post.<br>
<br>Given the immense growth in traffic there, it is entirely possible the authorities have been content to apply filters difficult to circumvent only by unsophisticated users.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Edward Cherlin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Sean DALY <<a href="http://sdaly.be" target="_blank">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> This older post by Harald Welte may be of interest:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2006/07/08/#20060708-china-internet-censorship" target="_blank">http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2006/07/08/#20060708-china-internet-censorship</a><br>
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</div>Thanks. China is in the process of changing systems.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China#Green_Dam_Youth_Escort" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China#Green_Dam_Youth_Escort</a><br>
<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort</a><br>
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</div>There is concern that this mandatory filtering software will also act<br>
as spyware. There is also considerable public pushback, and serious<br>
technical problems.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort#Defects_and_software_issues" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort#Defects_and_software_issues</a><br>
<br>
<a href="http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2009/06/green-dam-filter-software-not-compulsory/" target="_blank">http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2009/06/green-dam-filter-software-not-compulsory/</a><br>
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> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:28 PM, <a href="mailto:laurent@sesawe.net">laurent@sesawe.net</a><<a href="mailto:laurent@sesawe.net">laurent@sesawe.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Hi Ed<br>
> ><br>
> > the Farsi translation of "How Bypass Internet Censorship" is fully<br>
> > available here:<br>
> > <a href="http://fa.flossmanuals.net/CircumventionTools/Introduction" target="_blank">http://fa.flossmanuals.net/CircumventionTools/Introduction</a><br>
> > as well as on the Sesawe website:<br>
> > <a href="https://www.sesawe.net/-Manuals-fa-.html" target="_blank">https://www.sesawe.net/-Manuals-fa-.html</a><br>
> ><br>
> > For Iranian circumvention tools users, Sesawe also proposes support by<br>
> > mail at <a href="mailto:english@sesawe.net">english@sesawe.net</a> and <a href="mailto:farsi@sesawe.net">farsi@sesawe.net</a>.<br>
> ><br>
> > There is also a translation in Russian available here<br>
> > <a href="http://translate.flossmanuals.net/CircumventionTools_ru/Introduction" target="_blank">http://translate.flossmanuals.net/CircumventionTools_ru/Introduction</a><br>
> > and here<br>
> > <a href="https://www.sesawe.net/-Manuals-ru-.html" target="_blank">https://www.sesawe.net/-Manuals-ru-.html</a><br>
> ><br>
> > Chinese and Arabic translations are on their way.<br>
> ><br>
> > Yours,<br>
> > Laurent<br>
> ><br>
> > Edward Cherlin wrote:<br>
> >> We should have done this sooner, but can we speed up the Farsi<br>
> >> translation of How to Bypass Internet Censorship? I have a message to<br>
> >> Cory Doctorow, who is Tweeting on the issue. Also, I see that the<br>
> >> translation section has been reorganized. Where are the translations<br>
> >> in progress? I would like to be able to direct volunteers there.<br>
> >><br>
> >> We had a predictable increase in censorship in China on the Tiananmen<br>
> >> anniversary, and now China has demanded that filtering software be put<br>
> >> on every new computer sold in China.<br>
> >><br>
> >> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China#Green_Dam_Youth_Escort" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China#Green_Dam_Youth_Escort</a><br>
> >> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort</a><br>
> >><br>
> >> "Online polls conducted by leading Chinese web portals revealed poor<br>
> >> acceptance of the software by netizens. On Sina and Netease, over 80%<br>
> >> of poll participants said they would not consider or were not<br>
> >> interested in using the software; on Tencent, over 70% of poll<br>
> >> participants said it was unnecessary for new computers to be preloaded<br>
> >> with filtering softwares; on Sohu, over 70% of poll participants said<br>
> >> filtering softwares would not effectively prevent minors from browsing<br>
> >> inappropriate websites."<br>
> >><br>
> >> They got that right.<br>
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