1. High Tech's Great Leap Backward.
- Author
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Crovitz, L. Gordon
- Subjects
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COMPUTER industry , *INTERNET users , *WORLD Wide Web , *INTERNET , *COMPUTER software , *GOVERNMENT policy , *CENSORSHIP - Abstract
The author comments on the proposal by the Chinese government to require computer companies that sell computers in the country to install a government-developed software that is designed to block access to pornographic sites by Internet users. Internet experts claim that the software will censor political and religious Web sites and track when Chinese citizens go on the Web. The proposal puts pressure on companies such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Apple and Lenovo. He calls on these computer firms to resist the Chinese government's proposal.
- Published
- 2009