It’s not the breath-taking Three-Gorges Dam but a screening software that aims to provide an automatic internet policing force for the government, filtering out illegal content. Saying that, they really mean anything that the government deems not suitable for their citizens. The screening program is explained as an extension to screen illegal images that have resulted from Google’s Image search facility, in what it calls as a breach of the company’s contract with the government. The company has expressed regret over the oversight and say they will be addressing the issue promptly.
The security program is causing much stir due to the fact that it was not made to par with the rest of the world’s top security programs meaning it can easily be hijacked to do wrong things. Another fact is that if they screen images, what’s stopping them from screening everything else they deem illegal? The announcement was met with disdain even from state media authorities and the US government calls the program as anti-technology, technology that is the internet from which it so benefits from, ever since it opened it’s doors to trade with the West and the rest of the world.