China scales back censorship plans

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    17 August 2009

    The Chinese government is scaling back plans for compulsory net filtering for all citizens.

    China's minister of industry, information and technology said Green Dam Filtering software would be compulsory for all computers in schools and public internet cafes, but not for individual PCs.

    The government originally demanded that all machines should have the software either pre-loaded or at least included in the bundle of software discs included with new PCs. This was meant to start from July but was delayed.