Women use their laptop computers at a wireless cafe in Beijing on July 3, 2009. Several PC makers said they were voluntarily including China’s controversial Internet filter software in new shipments despite Beijing’s decision to postpone making it mandatory after China this week indefinitely delayed a plan requiring that all new computers come with a Chinese-made filtering programme, the “Green Dam Youth Escort”, making the postponement known just hours before the July 1 deadline. The government has said the software was aimed at filtering out pornography, but computer experts found it was also programmed to suppress politically sensitive material, prompting criticism at home and abroad. AFP PHOTO/Frederic J. BROWN (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
