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IOC president applauds organization of Summer Games, says there was no deal with Chinese government to restrict journalists' Internet access. ... Source: australianit.news.com.au --- 16 hours ago
INTERNET users could be forced to subsidise the Government's quest to censor the internet, with early estimates at $60 million a year. ... Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 6 days ago
China has lifted blocks on long-barred websites for journalists after coming under fire over Censorship. The move, which followed overnight talks with the International Olympic Committee, means that sites including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the BBC Chinese language service are visible in the media centre for the Games - and even other areas of Beijing. The row over their blocking had been deeply embarrassing for the IOC, which had said that journalists would have the same internet access they had enjoyed at previous Olympics. But sites with information on the banned spiritual movement Falun Gong, Chinese dissidents, the Tibetan government in exile and the 1989 military crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests are still inaccessible, apparently on the grounds that they are subversive or against the national interest. Nor will the newly available sites be available to Chinese internet users, now the world's largest online population. The U-turn came as President Hu Jintao said his country would stand by the pledges it made in bidding for the Games, in a rare interview with a select group of foreign reporters. "The Chinese government and the Chinese people have been working in real earnest to honour the commitments made to the international community," said Hu. But he also warned critics against politicising the Olympics, saying it would not help to resolve contentious issues. IOC press chief Kevan Gosper said ea ... Source: www.sfgate.com --- 5 days ago
Is Chinese President Hu Jintao going for the gold in disingenuousness? Addressing foreign reporters in Beijing today, the Chinese leader "warned...against 'politicizing' the Olympic Summer Games... ... Source: news.telegraph.co.uk --- 5 days ago
The Olympic president Jacques Rogge has rebutted accusations that the International Olympic Committee agreed to Chinese internet Censorship during the coming Games. ... Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com --- 6 days ago
Media Censorship, chronic air pollution, doping - IOC president Jacques Rogge and top Olympic officials meeting this weekend have a lot to discuss in their final review before the Beijing Games. ... Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com --- 5 days ago
IOC president Jacques Rogge was accused of backtracking on promises of press freedoms Saturday and some Internet sites remained blocked less than a week before the Beijing Games begin. ... Source: www.theglobeandmail.com --- 5 days ago
Jacques Rogge points finger at Chinese authorities in row over press freedom ... Source: www.abc.net.au --- 5 days ago
The great firewall of China is coming down for Olympic journalists at least. The International Olympic Committee is now adamant that no deal of any sort was struck between it and the Chinese authorities over Internet Censorship at the games. ... Source: www.abc.net.au --- 5 days ago
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says it will continue to monitor internet Censorship in China to ensure international media coverage is unhindered. ... Source: www.newscientist.com --- 6 days ago
Media internet access will now be uncensored, says Chinese premier, as IOC concedes officials permitted some web filtering ... Source: jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com --- 17 hours ago
Asra Nomani has the details . It seems as if an American professor of Islamic studies had a direct hand in forcing Random House to kill a novel. ... Source: www.computerworld.com --- 6 days ago
The International Olympic Committee conceded that it made a deal with Chinese officials to accept Censorship of the Internet during the Beijing Olympic Games. ... Source: blogcritics.org --- 6 days ago
Senator Brownback (Kansas) and Amnesty International are calling for the Chinese to cease electronic monitoring of visitors during the Olympics. Senator Sam Brownback (Kansas) is warning that China is planning to mount a massive espionage operation on guests staying at major hotels during the upcoming Olympic Games next month. This shouldn't surprise anyone. Although they consistently deny it, China has a history of spying on both business and government visitors. They also consistently... ... Source: quidnimis.squarespace.com --- 5 days ago
This from my friend Dave Marron at The Thunder Run: Hello All, Seems someone is scared of the truth as I found this when I went to post this morning. This blog has been locked due to possible Blogger Terms of Service violations. You may not publish new posts until your blog is reviewed and unlocked. This blog will be deleted within 20 days unless you request a review. Its the same message Concrete Bob received and Rosemary posted for him. This is bullshit as it appears that someone does not approve of the idea of free speech especially when the speech doesn't conform to their ideas. I'm always asked: "Why are the milblogs important?" Well we can see the reason why. We get the message out! We can not allow others to dictate the form or content of the message. The message must always be the truth, whether they want to hear it or not. Regardless of the outcome with Google's review, The Thunder Run is now in the process of purchasing a domain and finding seperate hosting services...I suggest anyone else that uses Blogger to do the same, its something I should have done a long time ago. With John Donovan's permission I will be posting most of my stuff at Castle Argghhh! until further notice David M Editor: The Thunder Run Dave has been a great friend to this blog and a tireless milblogger. And he is much nicer than I am. He's also the second friend to be shut down by Blogger. It seems that anyone can complain to blogger and co ... Source: www.nysun.com --- 5 days ago
BEIJING The International Olympic Committee is denying that it approved China's plan to censor Internet access at the main press venues here, notwithstanding a top Olympic official's comment that the committee's leadership seemed to have done just that. "The IOC would like to stress that no deal with the Chinese authorities to censor the Internet has ever in any way been entered into," a spokeswoman for the committee, Emmanuelle Moreau, said in a written statement yesterday. RELATED: Great... ... Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 6 days ago
Beijing - China agreed to lift internet restrictions at the Olympic press centre in Beijing following international protests, officials said Friday. The websites of the British BBC, online encyclopedia Wikipedia, US broadcaster Radio Free Asia and th... ... Source: www.p2pnet.net --- 6 days ago
p2pnet news view P2P | Freedom:- Only days before the 2008 Beijing Olympics are scheduled to begin, and following months of strong criticism about continuing Censorship, Chinese president Hu Jintao says his country will finally stand by pledges made when it was awarded the games. Now, “Internet use will be just like in any Olympics,” Reuters [...] ... Source: www.independent.ie --- 6 days ago
Irish politicians are criticising Chinese authorities for the suspension of a Chinese television channel to broadcast into Asia. ...
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Filed under: Computers , Summer Fun The pre-Olympics Censorship debacle continues, and unfortunately it's still not completely resolved. Earlier this week it was discovered that despite earlier pledges of Internet freedom for journalists during the games, many sites (like Amnesty International) were still blocked . There was, naturally, a global uproar, especially against the IOC, the Olympics governing body, for allowing such Censorship to take place. In the face of that the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, has lifted some restrictions -- but not all of them. Despite some of those previously censored sites being available now, like Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders, many are still blocked . Sites for the banned religious group Falun Gong and for the exiled Tibetan government are still banned (even for journalists) making this recent gesture from the Chinese President a bit... weak, really. [Source: Reuters , and Yahoo! News ] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...