Internet Censorship

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 32 days ago
AP - 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: news.yahoo.com --- 33 days ago
CNET - Olympic officials on Saturday said there was "no deal" with the Chinese government to restrict Internet access for foreign journalists covering the Beijing Games. ...

Source: www.msnbc.msn.com --- 33 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.news.com --- 33 days ago
IOC president applauds organization of Summer Games, says there was no deal with Chinese government to restrict journalists' Internet access. ...

Source: www.guardian.co.uk --- 34 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: seattletimes.nwsource.com --- 33 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 --- 33 days ago
Jacques Rogge points finger at Chinese authorities in row over press freedom ...

Source: www.abc.net.au --- 34 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.computerworld.com --- 35 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: www.techdirt.com --- 1 day ago
In early 2007, some Thai government officials totally overreacted to a silly video making fun of Thailand's king, and banned all of YouTube. Of course, the inevitable result wasn't that the video went away, but that it got a lot more attention both inside and outside of Thailand thanks to the futile attempt to ban it. Since then, it's clear that Thai officials have not learned their lesson. Over and over again we've seen reports of Thailand banning certain websites -- often political discussion sites -- because the government officials don't like what's being said. The government even passed a law making it illegal to try to circumvent these blocks to get at any banned website. And, once again, all this is doing is drawing more interest in the blocked sites. The latest report is that the gov't has demanded that ISPs block hundreds of sites that it doesn't like for whatever reason. Perhaps in blocking so many sites at once, it's hoping that the details of why get lost in the mix, but it hardly seems likely to be all that effective in the long run. While some may compare the situation to China and its Great Firewall, considering the massive bureaucracy that involves tens of thousands of people to manage the Great Firewall, it may be difficult for Thailand to effectively replicate it. Permalink | Comments | Email This Story ...

Source: www.earthtimes.org --- 35 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.bignewsnetwork.com --- 34 days ago
The International Olympic Committee made no deal with China on limiting Internet access to the media at the Beijing Olympics, IOC president Jacques Rogge said Saturday. ...

Source: www.news.com.au --- 35 days ago
THE Chinese appear to have relaxed Censorship of the Internet for Olympic journalists, with some previously blocked websites now available. ...

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Source: www.securecomputing.net.au --- 32 days ago
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has moved quickly to quell media furore surrounding Internet Censorship imposed on Beijing-based journalists. ...

Source: www.sportbusiness.com --- 35 days ago
The IOC has held talks with the organisers of Beijing 2008 to address the ‘Internet access problems’ which were experienced this week by media in the Olympic Games Main Press Centre in Beijing. ...

Source: www.citizen-times.com --- 33 days ago
BEIJING -- 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.koat.com --- 32 days ago
University of New Mexico computer scientists are helping track what the Chinese government's Internet Censorship software might filter in the upcoming Olympics. ...

Source: www.duncanriley.com --- 33 days ago
The results of the Australian Governments first test of Internet Censorship have been released today (pdf) and The Australian, as usual, runs the Government spin: THE federal Government will embark on the next step of its Internet filtering strategy after initial trials proved successful, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said…. In the past, one of the main drawbacks [...] ...