Sunday, May 04, 2008

China Blocking Blogger?


95 days till the Olympic Games in Beijing and China already testing out censorship of all blogspot.com-addresses?:
This is just in. China has blocked access to all Blogger blogs ahead of the Olympic games that begin in Beijing three months from now.

We conducted connectivity tests using three different nodes in China and none of them could connect to blogspot blogs.
China also seeks to censor you if you're planning to go there for the Olympics:
Brownback learned of the Internet-blocking moves by the Chinese from two sources, but could not divulge much further information, someone familiar with the conversation told FOX News.

"What I just learned yesterday is that the Chinese government has issued an outrageous directive, in preparation for the Olympics .... American hotels have been ordered by the Chinese government to place monitors and filters on their Internet piping to facilitate spying on international guests and visitors," Brownback said.
The Nobel Foundation in Sweden earlier dropped a Swedish broadcaster for having let China censor "a speech on freedom of expression".

Long live the Olympic Spirit!:
"One World, One Dream" is simple in expressions, but profound in meaning. It is of China, and also of the world. It conveys the lofty ideal of the people in Beijing as well as in China to share the global community and civilization and to create a bright future hand in hand with the people from the rest of the world. It expresses the firm belief of a great nation, with a long history of 5,000 years and on its way towards modernization, that is committed to peaceful development, harmonious society and people's happiness. It voices the aspirations of 1.3 billion Chinese people to contribute to the establishment of a peaceful and bright world.

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