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Some of you may remember the controversy over China’s Green Dam censorship software, which was required to be installed on every PC sold in China. Far fewer of you will likely remember my call to boycott those PC vendors who were voluntarily complying with that request, even once the Chinese government had begun to respond to global protests against it.

Well, it seems that freedom of speech, expression and thought on the net has won a major victory as all PC vendors have stopped bundling the software with China-bound PCs and the Chinese government has reportedly effectively dropped all plans to enforce use of the software, designed ostensibly to filter out pornography but also used for removing political discussion as well as to monitor users.

Accord to Industry Standard…

Lenovo, Acer and Sony have all stopped bundling the program, named Green Dam Youth Escort, with PCs sold in China, the companies said. The companies were among the few that went ahead with plans to distribute the software after China softened its order for PC makers to do so.

In another sign of fading enforcement, at least one Chinese high school has removed Green Dam from its computers after the software caused "severe conflicts" with programs used for roll and grading.

Personally I think it was all due to my call for a boycott. GOOD JOB MOBILITYSITE READERS!

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).