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ShareShanghai: Under the controversial Green Dam computer program, China has already installed the censorship software in more than half-a-million computers.
According to a report in The Telegraph, the Green Dam program has been downloaded three million times since the end of March and has been installed on 5,18,000 computers. Almost 7,000 websites in China have also installed the software.
On Tuesday night, the Chinese ministry of industry and internet technology issued a short statement, indefinitely delaying a plan to make Green Dam compulsory on all computers sold on the mainland. The regulation was due to come into force on Wednesday. The government retreated from the plan after fierce opposition from computer manufacturers, the US government and Chinese internet users.
Once Green Dam is installed on a home computer, it links to a central database and automatically filters out all pornography and some politically sensitive content.
