Chinese Censorship Partially Lifted For Olympics
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 International Olympics Committee (IOC), the Olympics governing body, for allowing such censorship to take place. In the face of all that noise, the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, has lifted some restrictions, but not all of them.
Though some previously blocked sites, such as Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders, are now available, many others 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]
