With Olympics Over, China Re-Censors Internet

eldavojohn writes "We last left the story of Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China when the IOC had reached a deal with the Chinese government whereby some of the press restrictions were lifted. With the 2008 Olympics now but a memory, China has began censoring foreign news sources again. Maybe the West is making too big of a deal over this, as many Chinese citizens seem to like it that way."

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They were censoring during the Olympics

[Anonymous Coward]

I was there during the Olympics and had internet access through a residential hookup. There was a lot of censoring going on: for example, URLs containing "blog" were generally not accessible. It was clearly not related to what was on the blog, but a blanket thing.

Re:Are we becoming bullies?

[jcnnghm]

There is nothing unusual about having your internet access filtered in the workplace, which is a far cry from the great firewall of china.

Re:...as many Chinese citizens seem to like it tha

[HungryHobo]

Does islam encourage the rape of children ? Well here's the description of what the paedophile prophet did to a 9 year old he had bought :

islam encourages child rape as much as christianity encourages smashing babies heads against rocks.

How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock.

Re:The Chinese are ignorant.

[meringuoid]

I mean, when was the last major revolution in the Western world? The French Revolution?

Depends what you call 'Western'. The French Revolution ended in 1799. Since then, a large part of the USA broke away and fought its own unsuccessful war of independence from 1861-65. The Irish Free State was established in 1922, after violent revolts on and off since 1916 culminating in a downright vicious terrorist campaign. Mussolini came to power in Italy in the same year, at the head of an armed coup d'etat by his Fascist party, with substantial popular support. In 1932 an army of war veterans marched on Washington to demand payments they were owed; there they were defeated by the military and failed to achieve their aims. In 1956 Hungary revolted against the Soviets, to little avail. Cuba revolted against the US-dominated gangster regime of Batista and installed a Communist state in 1959. Czechoslovakia revolted, unsuccessfully, against Soviet domination in 1968; in the same year Socialist strikes and sit-ins in Paris came close to bringing down the French state. In 1989 the success of Solidarity in achieving reform in Poland triggered a wave of revolt across eastern Europe and ultimately brought down the Soviet Union; many of these nations are now full EU members. Finally, bit by bit during the 1990s, Yugoslavia was torn apart by a series of ethnic secessionist movements and a long saga of bloody warfare.

That's just off the top of my head, cheating a little with Wikipedia to get the dates right. I'm sure a little research would turn up a whole lot more. Really, the twentieth century is one long saga of revolts and revolutions.