Couldn't give a Green Dam | ComputerWorld Hong Kong

The debacle shows how bad decisions can blow up in the face of those who make them and everyone around them, too.

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Mr Chen’s freelance censorship program has infuriated China’s 300 million internet users, exposed divisions between government agencies, diminished the country’s already-poor reputation for transparency and has provoked PC-makers into the unprecedented step of writing—and leaking—a letter of complaint to the premier.

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And they have no ability to enforce it. Miners die by the thousands, workers are maimed and children drink fake milk all for the lack of inspection and enforcement. It just doesn’t happen in China. No one, least of all Mr Chen, is going to send inspectors into PC factories and malls to look for his filtering app. No one gives a Green Dam.

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