On June 25, 2009, WEI Jingsheng and HUANG Ciping were invited to appear at Voice of America's "Issues and Opinions" TV/Radio Program hosted by Li Bao. They talked with Chinese viewers, audience and Internet users about the Chinese government's Internet monitoring software "Green Dam" which is supposed to be mandatory on all the new computers sold in China after July 1, 2009.
According to the latest decree by the Chinese government, all the computers purchased after July 1, 2009, must have installed software called "Green Dam". "Green Dam" is not a weapon for environmental protection, but it is a "dam". It filters keywords on computers in an effort to prevent online information from reaching Chinese Internet users, and includes both characters and pictures that the Chinese government does not want the Chinese people to read.

In the VOA interview, Wei Jingsheng and Huang Ciping pointed out that although the Chinese government claimed that the purpose of the "Green Dam" is to prevent pornographic materials from reaching the Chinese youth, the real purpose is revealed by the fact that of the more than 9,000 filtered keywords, only 2,600 of them were pornography related. Specifically, the "Green Dam" is not just a "dam", but more a hacker that can invade everyone's home, monitor every entry on the computer, and thus be able to control every computer even damage them. In the past, the Chinese government already spent more than one billion US dollars to build the unsuccessful Internet firewall "Great Wall". Now the government is applying this new software in an effort to gain even tighter control. This "Green Dam" software package was developed by two computer companies, that are associated with Chinese People's Liberation Army and National Security Department (i.e. Chinese secret police), so its purpose is obvious.

Wei Jingsheng pointed out that the "Green Dam" is a violation of people's privacy, that it would sneak into people's homes like spies. This conduct by the Chinese government obviously violates human rights and violates the China's own constitution, and it will bring trouble and difficulties for people's lives. The Chinese government used more than 40 million Yuan for one year's license of this software, which could mean an exchange of power and money behind the scene. Although the Chinese government guaranteed that "it would not violate individual's rights", who would believe that? After all, when did the Chinese government carry out its promises?

Huang Ciping pointed out that the "Green Dam" itself violated Chapter 13 of China's own constitution. (Chapter 13, regarding personal property, specifically states, "Legal private property of the citizens are not allowed to be violated".) Despite the more than one billion dollars (more than 10 billion Chinese Yuan) spent, the Chinese government's software "Great Wall" that was supposed to be able to track down an Internet site or a computer's IP has failed to block the flow of the Internet information as it planned. Chinese people have learned to use software that breaks through this firewall by using methods such as dynamic IP's, etc., successfully. However, at least the "Great Wall" firewall software was passive; it only prevented access to proscribed sites. This "Green Dam" software will not only take the initiative to filter anyone, but also monitor Internet communications, steal users' information, and make personal computers the easy targets of hackers and vicious viruses. Nevertheless, apparently, the "Green Dam" is only successful on Internet Explorer, but not on other Internet browsers including Firefox.

Wei Jingsheng said that American, Japanese, and Taiwanese companies were all unhappy with this "Green Dam". Japan and Taiwan stated that they would not install this software. Huang Ciping thinks that the international pressure is very important. She said that the Wei Jingsheng Foundation urges three actions:
1) Urge the US government to take action, putting pressure against the Chinese government;
2) Inform the Internet users inside China of the truth, and provide methods for circumventing the software or disabling it;
3) Urge the US Congress to pass the "Global Online Freedom Act".

Wei Jingsheng urged the Chinese people to use anti-Green Dam software to disable and uninstall Green Dam software, which is already available.