Web surfers in China organize internet boycott to protest China’s filter software.
From Brian Kraemer, The Channel Wire:
Chinese Web surfers are asking fellow Internet browsers in that country to boycott the Web on July 1. The proposed one-day boycott is intended to put pressure on the Chinese government to back off its insistence that PCs sold in China include the Green Dam Web filter software.
Many Chinese Web users fear that the government is attempting to tighten its grip on the populace by using Green Dam to increase censorship in the communist country. The Chinese government claims that installing the Green Dam filter on computers is solely an effort to block pornographic Websites.
Ai Weiwei, a Chinese artist who helped design the Olympic Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing, doesn't believe the Chinese government's claims and is calling on other Web users to boycott the Web for a day.
