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China's 'clumsy' online censorship

China is to delay a controversial plan requiring all new computers sold in the country to be equipped with an internet filtering software, state media says. Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones considers what this decision means for the Chinese government. Journalist Isabel Hilton, who edits chinadialogue.net, explains whether plans for the filter, called Green Dam Youth Escort, will be resurrected.

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