China wants all PCs to have anti-pornography software

CHINA wants all personal computers sold domestically to come with software that blocks access to online pornography, which it has banned, the main developer of the software has said.

China wants all PCs to have anti-pornography software

The software, called “Green Dam-Youth Escort”, targets online porn by preventing computers from accessing sites with pornographic pictures or language, Zhang Chenmin, general manager of Jinhui Computer System Engineering Co, told reporters. Jinhui was compiling a database of the blocked sites.

“According to our surveys, many teenage students have become familiar with internet pornography and they commonly share the addresses of pornographic websites with one another,” Zhang said.

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