Chinese bloggers celebrate Green Dam 'victory'

[FT News]

A garden party in Beijing billed as a protest against a government plan to fit all computers in China with Green Dam, a controversial web filtering software, turned into a celebration on after the programme was postponed.

“The government has learned a valuable lesson that you cannot treat your citizens like that,” said Ai Weiwei, an outspoken artist who had invited internet users to spend the day in a garden restaurant and off the web to mark the day, originally the government’s deadline for the program’s introduction.

About 200 bloggers, artists, journalists and students frolicked on the lawn and sipped ice-cold beer, many wearing T-Shirts mocking Green Dam.

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