[NormsRevenge]

Surprise!

not.

[fishtank]

[NormsRevenge]

File photo shows a journalist working on a laptop computer during a Beijing 2008 Olympics press conference. China plunged into another Olympic controversy as it announced that the thousands of foreign reporters covering the Games would have to endure Internet censorship. (AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)

[Rick.Donaldson]

He did not identify any others but reporters trying to surf the Internet at the main press centre for the Games on Wednesday found a wide array of sites deemed sensitive by China's rulers to be out-of-bounds.

These included sites belonging to Tibet's government-in-exile and Amnesty International, as well as those that had information on the 1989 Tiananmen massacre in which the military used deadly force to crush democracy protests.

Funny... someone in another thread was saying they aren't really Communist any more... /sigh

[calex59]

Now see, there is real air pollution in China, not CO2 but harmful elements that the US has taken great pains to eliminate from our air. As for their not allowing internet freedom who the heck is surprised by that move? The journalist? Why would they be surprised that one of their favorite far left governments won’t allow the world to see what is really taking place at the Olympics in real time?

[jrg]

Too bad that someone couldn’t hack the television feed from the opening ceremonies and replace all of the nation’s flags with the Tibetan one.

[Leg Olam]

With all the things that the Olymic Games are supposed to be about holding them in the ‘Peoples’ Republic is such a farce.

[yldstrk]

China is a dictatorship, a police state

[KC_Conspirator]

When you make a deal with today’s version of Germany 1936, what do you expect?

[rockinqsranch]

“Are you pondering what I’m pondering?” What if China hosted the Olympic Games and nobody came?

[DGHoodini]

Ahhh what the hell...The bribes the Chinese gave the IOC were big enough...and that’s the only way *any* city gets chosen as a host...by giving the best bribes to the members of the IOC board. Maybe they’ll tack on some supplemental bribes to make sure that China won’t be ruled out of any future Olymics for embarrassing the IOC by going back on the promise for unfettered Internet access.

[FreeAtlanta]

Boycott the games

[PapaBear3625]

If I’m a reporter, and I’m able to access my company’s site via VPN, then I’m able to bypass any and all restrictions that China might want to impose on me.

[snarks_when_bored]

As I’ve been sayin’, they really are the Mao Games...

[Fedupwithit]

"Huh, you guys are commies????..then why am I seeing rudimentary free markets??"

-Homer Simpson

[RoadTest]

What a horrible country to try to hold the Olympics in!

[untrained skeptic]

It's too late to move the games now, but the IOC should refuse to let Chinese athletes participate in these games or the next couple Olympics if they don't start following through on their promises.

If the IOC is too cowardly to prohibit the Chinese athletes from participating in the Olympics on their home turf, they should still ban them from the next two.