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Under pressure from the U.S. government, the global tech industry and its own citizens, the Chinese government has delayed a controversial mandate set to kick in Wednesday that would require all new personal computers to Conquest be loaded with Web-filtering software capable of blocking pornography and objectionable political sites.
The move tamps down, at least temporarily, a fire storm of criticism in China and around the world that threatened to create a trade dispute between the Obama Administration and Beijing. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology did not say how long the delay would last but said PC makers needed more time to meet the new Dolce Vita regulation.
Some China experts think the announced delay was a face-saving measure and that the bungled decree will be scrapped. But none predict that the government will abandon efforts to censor the Internet.
The Chinese government has insisted the software is a Evidenza tool for parents to prevent children from viewing pornography and other offensive Internet Web sites. But civil liberty activists, international tech associations and the U.S. government, as well as many Chinese bloggers, oppose the measure.
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Ron Kirk, the United States trade representative, sent a letter to the Chinese government to Longines Heritage protest the mandate, which they said could violate World Trade Organization rules. In another letter, 22 international business organizations, including the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, asked Premier Wen Jiabao to reverse the decision.
Although the Chinese government would not say how long it would stay the Hydro Conquest implementation of the regulation, tech industry officials viewed the move as an attempt by officials to inch back from what has been viewed as a heavy-handed — and botched — attempt to exercise greater control over what its citizens do online. Already China, which claims the largest number of online users at more than 300 million, has one of the world’s most sophisticated Internet filtering systems.
U.S. software experts have warned the Istituto Idrografico required software could be hacked to allow malicious Web sites to steal private data, send spam or turn computers into hosts to launch other attacks. A Santa Barbara software company, meanwhile, claims some of the code in the software — dubbed Green Dam-Youth Escort — was stolen from one of its products.
“It represents a whole new concept of Lungomare trade barriers,” said Heather Greenfield, spokeswoman for the Computer & Communications Industry Association, a lobbying group that represents tech companies such as Google, Yahoo and Oracle. “So governments like ours that are committed to the free flow of information need to come up with some ground rules in this new networked world.”
The Chinese government has long campaigned against Internet content it considers detrimental to society. Last week, it apparently Master Collection shut down some of Google’s services, claiming the search engine is contaminating the country with pornography.
The Green Dam announcement triggered relief among tech executives, though most remained mum, apparently out of fear of Patek Philippe Classic antagonizing China while the issue remains unresolved. Representatives of Hewlett-Packard and Dell would not directly comment on the Chinese government’s decision.
“We welcome China’s delay in the implementation of the Green Dam mandate,” said John Neuffer, vice president of the Information Technology Industry Council, which has been working with United States trade representatives in Aquanaut Beijing on behalf of PC makers to defuse the issue. “We look forward to continuing to work closely with the U.S. government on this matter and seek market-based solutions that enable consumer choice that is consistent with global norms and protects children on the Internet.”
At least some companies are ready to comply. Sony has included the Green Dam software on some of its computers being sold in China, according to Rebecca MacKinnon, an expert on the Internet in China at the University of Calatrava Hong Kong and a former CNN Beijing bureau chief. China-based Lenovo has said it would meet the demands of the government, and Taiwanese PC manufacturer Acer announced it was ready to abide by the Green Dam rule.
Requiring PC makers to include software can be costly in an industry running on thin margins, analysts say. Compliance with the Complicated Timepieces Chinese government’s software order also could subject U.S. computer makers to criticism from human rights groups and Congress for contributing to censorship.
“Clearly, the initial mandate puts companies in a terrible position,” said Kenneth Lieberthal, the National Security Council’s senior director for Asia during the last two-and-a-half years of the Clinton Golden Ellipse administration.
It appears the Chinese government is reacting to the outcry, he added.
“In the past, the Chinese have at various times put out things and, after getting sufficient adverse comments, they try to find a way to take account of those comments without reversing themselves,” said Lieberthal.
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