Green Dam Youth Escort is the censor ware developed and distributed by Chinese government to filter ‘harmful’ content. Here are some details about the working of the software.
‘Green Dam-Youth Escort’ will filter
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All text editors on the market (EditPlus, UltraEdit, EmEditor),
Office software suites (WPS, MS Office),
E-mail clients,
Instant messaging clients
Browsers
Green Dam-Youth Escort will ‘force’ you to do some work
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Green Dam controls the time minors spend online, using QQ or MSN, and playing games.
Green Dam effectively eliminates Internet addiction.
If any word resembling “Falun Gong” is entered into either Notepad or WordPad, the application will shut down
Filter porn images based on skin tone.
It recognizes humans
How Green Dam-Youth Escort filter works?
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“Green Dam” utilizes the Winsock2 SPI port to obtain data from both sender and recipient, and through analyzing these data, obtains http data.
Two processes, xdaemon.exe and xnet2.exe screens of anti-circumvention software, such as FreeGate.
Beijing Dazheng Language Technology Co. Ltd.’s text filtering engine is used.
Green Dam updates automatically online.
Upon discovery of harmful information, report automatically to Jinhui Corporation
Current versions only support Windows; effective only when used in conjunction with Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, it has no effect when used with Firefox.
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June 19th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
From the looks of it this censorship is more than “a protection against the Chinese youth.” The Chinese “netizens” are speaking strongly against the proposed censorship on anti-Green Dam websites. Over 10,400 have been left on one of them. http://www.newsy.com/videos/chinese_filter_a_no_go However, I don’t know if they have the time or power to overturn the Chinese government’s proposal.