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IOC Admits Internet Censorship Deal With China
Dave writes "BEIJING (Reuters) — Some International Olympic Committee officials cut a deal to let China block sensitive websites despite promises of unrestricted access, a senior IOC official admitted on Wednesday.
Persistent pollution fears and China's concerns about security in Tibet also remained problems for organizers nine days before the Games begin.
China had committed to providing media with the same freedom to report on the Games as they enjoyed at previous Olympics, but journalists have this week complained of finding access to sites deemed sensitive to its communist leadership blocked.
'I regret that it now appears BOCOG has announced that there will be limitations on website access during Games time,' IOC press chief Kevan Gosper said, referring to Beijing's Olympic organizers.
'I also now understand that some IOC officials negotiated with the Chinese that some sensitive sites would be blocked on the basis they were not considered Games related,' he said." But yet somehow the mainstream media will ignore this because the Olympics are patriotic or something.
What, pray tell, are those?
I expect specifics and citations. Bonus points if your citations aren't articles from worldnetdaily or the like.
So, China blocks portions of the Internet - and always has - and suddenly its front page news.
But, in the USA, ISPs are blocking more and more sites every day - but it barely gets noticed by the same mainstream press.
If human rights violations and internet blocking are reasons to not hold an Olympics - then I guess the USA will never host another one.
.. how a known criminal and terrorist like Dr Eggman aka Ivo Robotnik can be allowed to participate in the Olympics.
"The AC was implying that if he was presented something with what he didn't want to hear, he would just dismiss it out of hand"
He did.
"Instead he found his own sources that countered directly what the guy had to say to show that it wasn't a credible source. "
ACTUALLY what he did was find information that confirmed what OP said (and do you even know what "credible source" means? It was CNN you moron) and then drew his own conclusions. NOTHING he posted refuted ANYTHING OP said, so learn to read better or stop lying.
"Grow up. You are the one trying to use debate techniques that detract from the actual point of the argument."
The point of the argument is people like you are fucking zombies, and any attempt to discuss issues about your candidate are met with vitriol and lies.
Nice job proving it.
Wow, lying about that is a way worse thing to get upset about than the other stuff they do.
It is for the IOC. The IOC has no jurisdiction over them slaughtering Tibetans, but they do have jurisdiction over the Internet, and they violated their agreement over it.
I'm sure no one has ever made promises to do things to get the games and then not followed through before.
Are you a Republican? You sound like the Bush apologists. "It's ok for him to commit treason, start wars based on lies, violate the Constituion in at least 100 ways because Clinton got a blow job." I don't care what anyone else did. No one else had to promise unfiltered Internet because it wouldn't have been a problem in any of the other cities in the running for these games. They promised it in an attempt win the bid. Then they didn't provide it. The IOC should ban all Chinese from competing over this. Instead, they agreed to violations of their own rules. The IOC is complicit in human rights violations by helping to cover them up.
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