China's controversial plan to install Green Dam internet filtering software on all computers will go ahead despite being postponement, a government official told state media today.
On a secure videoconference call last Saturday, a person familiar with the call said, General Petraeus threw his support behind a costly, and controversial, plan to install temporary generators to supply more electricity to Kandahar, the Taliban stronghold that is the next major American military target.
South Korea's acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn vowed to press ahead with controversial plans to install a U.S. missile defense system on its territory this year, despite Beijing's strident opposition.
One controversial suggestion is to install a ladder on the famous "Hillary step", a cliff of rock and ice which is the last obstacle before the summit when the mountain is climbed by the usual South Col route.
The U.S. has begun to install the controversial THAAD missile-defense system in South Korea, bolstering the dozen U.S. military bases and thirty thousand U.S. soldiers already in place.
The biggest news of all is the massive outcry as the government orders PC makers to install its controversial censorship software, Green Dam.
The government drops its plan to install the controversial Green Dam software on every new computer sold in China, despite official comments the previous month that it would go ahead after all.
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An official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, quoted in an official English-language newspaper on Tuesday, said that while computer makers were required to supply a controversial Internet filtering program on all new computers, they were not required to install it.
But, in fact, they are the controversial new pay phones, walled in advertising, that Verizon has finally gotten permission to install citywide.
