Huffington Post, July 2, 2009
By Leslie Harris

Chinese Internet users won an important victory when the Chinese government indefinitely delayed implementation of the widely condemned "Green Dam" filtering mandate. Although this isn't the first time the government has retreated from an unreasonable Internet-related mandate, it is the first time that there has been such a transparent, coordinated and vocal effort both in and out of the country to halt the order.

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