While everyone must be enjoying Apple throwing away iPhone’s for $99 or having you wait impatiently for the iPhone 3G-S to be available on June 19. China is taking a pretty a close fist approach to Web and Internet. China wants nothing short of total control over access to Web services and it had shown this earlier by blocking access to Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, Bing and the list just won’t stop. However the latest reports on various blogs state that China has ordered all PC manufacturers to sell each device with a software that blocks access to websites banned in the mainland. Authorities have however stated that it will be available in a CD and users can decide to install it or not. I am not buying that and even if they had that choice, if things to come to banning a URL, the government will do it. The software if installed will auto-update lists of banned websites, perhaps from a central server, meaning if you are in China running that software, you will be blocked from accessing the website banned in your country, perhaps instantly. And this is going to be effective from July 1, this year.
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