Report: Threats made to maker of China filtering – Tech-Web

www.washingtonpost.com — Sometimes I feel, probably wrongly, like most of the people freaking out about #gfw and tonight's possible Google block are foreigners. This article, about 1000+ death threats that have been called into the makers of the Green Dam software, which I presume are mostly Chinese, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. We ARE the world, and we are pissed.

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