The computer industry should make it clear to the Chinese government that it will not cooperate in efforts to curtail access to information on the internet through government-mandated or provided filtering software such as the "Green Dam Youth Escort" program, Human Rights Watch said today... This week, a Washington-based group representing leading information technology companies issued a brief statement urging the Chinese government to "reconsider implementing its new mandatory filtering software requirement," but to date has received no response indicating the new requirement would be rescinded. "The government's order to install censorship software represents a grave threat to freedom of expression in China," said Arvind Ganesan, Business and Human Rights Program director at Human Rights Watch. [refers to Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Lenovo, Yahoo!]