Uncategorized Digital Trends | 31 Jul 2008 02:30 pm
IOC Surprised at Olympics Net Censorship
It's well-known that "The Great Firewall of China" is the world's largest Internet access control and censorship system on the planet, regularly blocking Chinese Internet users' access to sites and information the Chinese government believes to be in some way harmful to its citizenry. Although Beijing's host contract for the 2008 summer Olympic Games stipulates media covering the games would be allowed unfettered Internet access, China in May indicated it would not be offering unrestricted Internet access to anyone at the games, including foreign media. And sure enough: now that forieng media are turning up to cover the games, they're
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