Red Light For Green Dam
Jul 19, 2010
The developer of a controversial Internet-filtering software hasn't received government financing for more than a year, reports said Tuesday, effectively ending a costly attempt to censor "vulgar" online content through the pre-installation of the program on all computers sold on the Chinese mainland.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) spent 41.7 million yuan ($6.2 million) in May 2009 to procure the year-long right to use of the "Green Dam - Youth Escort" software program, from the Beijing Dazheng Human Language Technology Academy Co and the Zhengzhou-based Jinhui Computer System Engineering Limited Company, which jointly developed the program.
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