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  • In China: Acer, Lenovo and Asustek voluntarily ship PCs with filtering software

    In China: Acer, Lenovo and Asustek voluntarily ship PCs with filtering software

    Green Dam, a filtering software that's supposed to protect China's population from harmful content (and can be called a piece of garbage on more than one level), seems to trigger anticipatory obedience (you could also call it business sense, I guess) within some PC companies. Even though the Chinese government postponed its plans to make the software mandatory with all PC shipments in the country from July 1, Acer, Asustek and Lenovo already bundle their hardware with Green Dam.

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