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Back in 2008, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) commissioned the development of a content filtering software. Beijing Dazheng Human Language Technology Academy and Zhengzhou Jinhui Computer System Engineering were the two companies tasked with the development of the Green Dam Youth Escort content-filtering software.
Although the software was initially meant to be mandatory for all new PCs sold in China, the diktat was amended to only cover PCs in public places – no longer requiring vendors to ship PCs with Green Dam pre-installed on them. But now the project is in danger of petering out as the ministry seems reluctant to fund it.
According to local media reports, the lack of funds has forced one of the developers, Beijing Dazheng Human Language Technology Academy, out of the project. "We indeed lack funds. We cannot keep on operating any more after a one-year bitter struggle," Chen Xiaomeng, the general manager of Dazheng, told ChinaDaily.com. The other company is also unlikely to continue working on the project if the current situation persists.
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JohnP
July 13, 2010 at 9:46pm
Threats, fines, HUGE fines, software, DRM, and rootkits all failed to prevent the music people wanted from getting out. Can China prevent an even larger need for transparacy of information? I don't think so...
