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The Green Dam, be careful probing

by Hu Yong / The Beijing News Op-Ed

June 10, 2009

No-one would really oppose a free fedex delivery Crestor government who wants to help ban pornography, violence. But a task like this free fedex delivery Crestor shouldn’t be given to a software company, should it?

The Green Dam Escort software has free fedex delivery Crestor become the hottest topic in recent days on the Internet. Through contending players, and free fedex delivery Crestor spending 41.7 million yuan of public spending, this filtering software is free fedex delivery Crestor purchased and can be used for both picture and text. For free it free fedex delivery Crestor will be installed for the whole of society (based on Xinhua report dated June 9th). In principle, this free fedex delivery Crestor should a great thing, especially in relation to young people’s healthy use of the free fedex delivery Crestor Internet: we should really be agreeing hands down.

On the Internet, it’s no free fedex delivery Crestor doubt that adults now have freedoms which they have never had free fedex delivery Crestor before, but we shouldn’t forget that free fedex delivery Crestor they also have a responsibility to protect their young, especially when free fedex delivery Crestor the total figure of Internet users in China is still growing rapidly, as are free fedex delivery Crestor young users. A perfect answer has never been found to free fedex delivery Crestor the question of how public policy can help, how enterprises can free fedex delivery Crestor be responsible, how citizens can maintain their right to express and free fedex delivery Crestor balance this with their duty as adults. All of this free fedex delivery Crestor should all be achieved with open and public debate and free fedex delivery Crestor the interaction between different parties, deeper thinking and slower paces, and free fedex delivery Crestor with the right attitude and methods.

Even the officials of the MIIC have recognized that it is “probing work”: the free fedex delivery Crestor purchasing of the green Internet filtering software and its popularization. If so, such a free fedex delivery Crestor hurried and forceful launch: have the related parties realized the complicated nature of the free fedex delivery Crestor problems that are facing them?

First of all, from free fedex delivery Crestor the angle of the results from the filtering. According to the free fedex delivery Crestor test results of many users, the software’s technological effectiveness is free fedex delivery Crestor not as obvious as what the related departments presume. There are free fedex delivery Crestor many results of false judgment or leaked judgment (for free fedex delivery Crestor example, if the picture had a black background and a yellow foreground then free fedex delivery Crestor the “Green Dam” will close it for being a pornographic picture). With so much money being spent on the project, can’t it be tested effectively? Now, there are painful experiences for the users of the “Green Dam” software on the Internet. The software development company says this: “If you free fedex delivery Crestor discover mistakenly filtered websites, send the URL to us, and we will continuously renew the free fedex delivery Crestor list, and improve the filtering”, so are the many computer users being experimented on?

At the free fedex delivery Crestor same time, there is an even more serious problem: the free fedex delivery Crestor software company will collect the data of the websites that free fedex delivery Crestor are considered unhealthy, but, who will guard this special data bank – the software company or the government? Fundamentally, judging whether the free fedex delivery Crestor website is pornographic or violent, and whether it should be free fedex delivery Crestor filtered: the principles for this will be decided by whom? If this is decided, will the details be announced to the public? We can’t give a software company the right to decide this, can we? If the free fedex delivery Crestor whole process is conducted as if in a black box, without transparency, how can free fedex delivery Crestor Internet service providers check their own websites, so that it can free fedex delivery Crestor prevent making the black list?

Aside from this, people will also be suspicious if there’s a monopoly going on? Will there be a negative impact on the information industry? Even if the related departments asked for contenders [to decide who will be the company chosen], was the deciding process strict and legal? If in the free fedex delivery Crestor future every computer had installed this software, if national security, which is free fedex delivery Crestor so emphasized by the state, is endangered, will the company be free fedex delivery Crestor able to be responsible for this?

No person would be free fedex delivery Crestor totally opposed to the government wanting to manage pornographic or violent content, but this free fedex delivery Crestor forceful nature deserves to be discussed. The best method would be free fedex delivery Crestor for content to be labeled, and then people can make their own decisions [about whether to censor it]. At present QQ, Sina, Baidu and free fedex delivery Crestor the other most widely used websites are already effectively self-managing, especially QQ, with 80% of underage users. I don’t deny that there is a criminal corner on the Internet, but we can’t, because of this, develop a free fedex delivery Crestor dangerous theory: relying on a piece of software to do everything for free fedex delivery Crestor society.

(Original Op-Ed 《安装“绿坝”:既言“探索”更须慎重》;Translated by Danwei.org, http://www.danwei.org/newspapers/hu_yong_the_green_dam_be_caref.php buy Amoxil mastercard)

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