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"A couple of days ago, a group of organizations - trade groups, American, European and Japanese chambers of commerce, and the U.S. National Association of Manufacturers - had protested against the Chinese plan to include web filtering software, Green Dam Youth Escort, on every PC sold in China. \nIt was an unprecedented move, but as we predicted, it didn't bring any immediate results, as the big companies already started caving in. The first one to do so seems to be Sony, which already started to comply with Chinese demands, including the software with at least some of its PCs sold in China. \nThis info does not come directly from Sony, but from a document that came with a new Sony Vaio computer shipped in China. A Chinese blogger posted an image of the document on TwitPic, and it was translated by Rebecca MacKinnon, Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre. \nAccording to this document, Sony took the easiest route, merely providing the Green Dam program on the hard drive, listing its location in this document, along with a number of disclaimers, such as:\n\"Sony cannot guarantee the authenticity, legality, or compatibility of the software's content, function, service or any other feature.\"\"Sony assumes no responsibility whatsoever for any kinds of loss or harm incurred by the user as a result of use of Green Dam. Sole responsibility lies with the software's maker.\"\nThe document also says that Green Dam doesn't support a 64-bit operating system, and will therefore not be shipped with PCs that come with a 64-bit OS. Once again, this shows the sloppiness of Chinese censors and the haste with which this measure was undertaken. Requiring all manufacturers to ship a program with all their PCs, but not providing a 64-bit version of the program? I wonder what kind of security holes it contains.\nIn any case, it seems our initial assessment was right: no matter what anyone does, no matter how crazy this entire Green Dam initiative is, in the end the big PC manufacturers will have to find a way to comply. Hopefully, if the way Sony handled it is any indication, the program will not come preinstalled, and buyers will at least have a choice whether they want to install it or not."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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