Surprise! China’s Porn Filter Has Political Opinions [Censorship]
The weirdly naive Green Dam-Youth Escort web filter project, which was almost certainly initiated because a government official caught his kid looking at really weird porn on time, doesn’t just alert at ladyboobs; as some had predicted, it’s being used to censor politically sensitive material. Of course, China’s been doing this server-side for years. [WSJ]
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