China's Ministry of Education says that the networks of all China's schools shall be subject to monitoring and education departments at each level shall conduct regular checkups on these networks and guide the schools in installing green online filtering software to remove bad information.

The Green Dam Youth Escort software saga has reared its head again as an American firm has taken aim at Chinese computer manufacturers and the Chinese government in a new lawsuit in the United States.

According to the spokesperson from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the installation of the Green Dam Youth Escort software can be delayed for those PC manufacturers who are not yet ready for providing the software bundled with their computers.

Beijing's technology industry oversight agencies will ask website publishers, editors and webmasters of websites that are registered in the city to register their real names in an effort to prevent unhealthy online content from being published.

According to the Chinese security software company Jiangmin, the Green Dam Youth Escort software promoted by the Chinese government that aims to prevent young people from viewing pornographic websites has a security backdoor and hackers can take advantage of the loophole to spread virus.

By ChinaTechNews.com Editorial Team The latest salvos aimed at China are technology-induced fear-mongerings that a PC security software will cause a veil to wax across computer screens of Chinese netizens. This fear could not be any more misguided.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the Chinese government hopes to pre-install web censoring software in PCs sold in China after July 1 to block some banned websites.