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China Wants US-Owned Hotels to Censor Internet
jp_papin writes "The Chinese government is demanding that US-owned hotels there filter Internet service during the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, US Senator Sam Brownback has alleged. The Chinese government is requiring US-owned hotels to install Internet filters to 'monitor and restrict information coming in and out of China,' Brownback said Thursday. 'This is an insult to the spirit of the games and an affront to American businesses,' he said. 'I call on China to immediately rescind this demand.' US State Department spokesman Tom Casey said he wasn't aware of those specific requests from the Chinese government, but Brownback said he got the information on Internet filtering from 'two different reliable but confidential sources.' The State Department is apparently continuing dialog with China about freedom of expression."
... to pay your $699 cock-smoking fee you licensing tea-baggers.
I don't think it was a consideration tbh - the IOC has been shown time and time again to be utterly corrupt, the reason China has these 2008 Olympics is down mainly to the fact that the envelopes of cash they slipped under the African nations representatives hotel room doors was of higher value than those from other nations.
Correct - regardless of citizenship, humans have a natural right, obligation, and instinct to preserve their lives. IN WHATEVER WAY is necessary.
If that's the case then you should just stay in your basement clinging to your guns. Many others of us don't want to deal with such paranoid fools.
You're one of those conspiracy theorists aren't you?
Wow, an old-style Usenet kook! Here on Slashdot! Take a picture, quickly! See how he starts by rationally discussing the subject at hand in the first paragraph, before introducing an unrelated issue in the second that refers to a shared experience that nobody else had. The last three paragraphs are a great display of the Usenet kook in his natural environment. Just look at that plumage!
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!