Chinese Censorship: An Update
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The International Olympic Committe released the following statement on Thursday, in response to recent reports that the Chinese government will censor the websites journalists and visitors have access to during next week's Beijing Olympic games.
They say:
"Our position is that the IOC has always encouraged the Beijing 2008 organisers to provide media with the fullest access possible to report on the Olympic Games, including access to the internet.
In light of internet access problems which were experienced this week by media in the Olympic Games Main Press Centre in Beijing, the IOC – namely Chairman of the Beijing 2008 IOC
Coordination Commission Hein Verbruggen and Olympic Games Executive Director Gilbert Felli – held meetings and discussions today with Games organizers (BOCOG) and Chinese authorities.
The issues were put on the table and the IOC requested that the Olympic Games hosts address them. We understand that BOCOG will give details to the media very soon of how the matter has been addressed. We trust them to keep their promise.
The IOC would like to stress that no deal with the Chinese authorities to censor the internet has ever in any way been entered into."
They sound like a bunch of pussies to us.
The IOC needs to take a stronger stance!
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So, you want to limit Toby Keith's right to free speech and then BITCH when the Chinese try to limit the freedom to their citizens!
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Omg well China already censor's everything else too, why is this such a big deal?
It's just a way to save face - censorship must happen for China to keep the civilized world power image it's working so hard to present - protest of any kind needs to be buried. We picked a hell of country to hold the Olympics in.
If you think censorship is wrong - then don't watch the Olympics!!! I won't watch either!!!
CHING CHAI CHO CHUNG!!!!
Re: jenny –
OMFG! r u rlly that much of a loser that "winning" the first to comment makes u happy??
get a freaking life!!
I hate people who do that! god, its rlly not that serious..
Dear Jenny, if you take it that seriously, you obviously have no life, and you REALLY need to get one..
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I totally agree! They never should have picked Beijing as the Olympics host. Human rights abuses, smog, censorship, forcing people to put their homes behind walls! What a horrible place!
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it was a communist country when the ioc decided that the games would be held there and it's a communist country now…so y the hell r u & ne others outraged and shocked about the censorship??? agreed china violates human rights, but how ’bout checking the tag to see where your clothes were made before calling the kettle black!
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So who cares about Miley if she covers a song???
You criticize Toby Keith for exercising his right to free speech and then criticize the regulators of the Chinese?
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I think if open internet access is a prerequisite to hosting the games, the games should not have been awarded to Beijing. But they are, and it's a little late to protest Chinese policies.
Re: Reade – and i'm sure half of your wardrobe was made in china….hypcritical? YEAH!
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China should have never been given the Olympics. It's been nothing but problems. They are not willing to change or integrate with the rest of the West. I mean abso;lutley no offense to the Chinese people, but the Government of China just can't seem to get with the program. I would never go to China for the Olympics (I can't afford to go), but even if I could, I would be concerned about my safety. I am really worried that there might be terrorist attempts or hardline government crackdowns that result in bloodshed. Also I'm black and from what I've heard, some Chinese establishments have been told not to cater to blacks/serve them, etc. This is just unacceptable to me. No wonder people want to leave that country. The government sounds terribly backwards.
Boycott the OLYMPICS and ALL SPONSORS DURING THE GAMES!!!
There shouldn't be Internet censorship anywhere — China is just keeping its people in a bubble, cut off from the rest of the world.
i agree with comment 17
Perez. You're not a real journalist. You're like a bad tabloid. You don't confirm your sources, you obviously have vendettas against certain races, cultures, even sexual orientations. You're really starting to piss me off with this China shit storm. Get over yourself. You can try to make China look bad all you want. Anyone that actually visits that country is always blown away and knows that the future lies there. Btw, when I was in Beijing recently, there was no smog AT ALL. China has cleaner air than New Jersey. This is all unsubstantiated propaganda BULLSHIT. Europeans are always making fun of the United States because we always say we're so free and liberated. We're NOT.
Re: lala –
HAHAH omg thank you! It was my first time too.
Perez… why do you feel the need to wave the "Freedom of Speech" flag everytime something like this happens, and then, if a right wing republican says something you don't like, it's "up in arms" saying they need to be censored for being "stoopid" (which is, quite frankly, STUPID)?
Fuck the olympics. China sucks! Not only in it's terrible treatment of it's own people, but in the treatment of North Korean refugees. Why are we making that terrible governemtn money when they'll only use it to continue the oppression of it's citiens?
Stop with this FREE TIBET bullshit. If you dumb fucks really knew what was up, you'd know that Shangri-La (Yes, you morons, it really does exist) is in China and there are thousands of Tibetans and Tibetan monks who live there peacefully and without issue. Tibetans living in China without force or pressure. Look it up. It was on the damn travel channel for goodness sakes.
i mean it's their country who im i to say how they should run it, to each its own, it works for them, just bc im an american im not gonna be yea the world needs a democracy, bc the world is not ready for that, it would be ignorant and presumptous for me to push my views onto other
Re: Anastasia –
Where do you think your hair dye comes from you ugly Albino? Shut your trap.
Re: TRUTH – You are an idiot
You obviously know nothing about Chinas government. Read some news before you open your mouth like you know something 
I do not trust a country that approves of torturing and killing millions of cats, dogs, foxes, raccoons and other animals to sell their fur.
They shouldn't even be allowed to host the games.
If you look at the history, they were given these games around 10 years ago based on the promise to clean up their civil rights violations, something that IOC stands for in some eyes.
Let their people do there thang girl…
ps… FREE TIBET
Re: sjefj – Actually, my hair is naturally white, thanks
And yes, many things come from China, that doesn't make what they do right, does it? Moron 
I thought GOOGLE and its technological capabilities gives the Chinese the ability to censor the net. I've got news for you.
Google is an American Public Corporation, so who's finger pointing here?
fisrt of all they dont "torture" their cats and dogs, they eath them, it's their culture, it's food to them so what, geez narrow minded much
Re: kyle – Rome wasn't built in a day. They've made great strides vis a vie capitalism. They own you.
Re: MIke – So true. They due to be the largest economy in the next 5 years and with that comes lots money to build your up military. They have already started. Its funny to hear people bitch about the US, once China is the main world player people will wish for the good old days when the US was it. These people don't fu*k around, there is no PC nonsence in China hat's for sure, they simply don't play that game. Also it will not be a good time to be black. If there is one thing they hate more then "round eyes" its blacks.
It's their country, they can do whatever they want.
Re: sjefj – BTW, Nazi's made a lot of products too! Why don't we support them anymore? lol
Everyone hates blacks, they are one of the most violent, loud and lazy people around. There i said it. Now who here thinks the earth is flat, oh that fat stupid black bitch on the view.
China should have never been given the Olympics. Being a communist country is enough to ban them from hosting or participating the Olympics game. I honestly don't trust a bit from these mother fuckers. These tyrants would do anything to save face or cover their horrible trace of act. If they think the rest of the world is just as stupid as their pathetic citizens, then they must be fucking retards.
P.S. don't call me a racist! Im chinese myself, I absofuckinglutely hate every single thing about these dictators.
The ioc can't not have the games and China knows this. It is up to the individual countries to decide weather or not they are gonna participate in the games. China can do whatever it wants. They not doing anything thay arent already in the news for everyday. Business as usual for them. I hope the U.S boycotts the games. It has been done in the past. I think it is very important and needs to be done again. Someone needs to stand up and not be so p/c. The medals are not important. What is important is the human rights issue.
They have a lot of people, so a dictarship works great for them, plus they are quite powerful. Good for them. We need to keep up.
they def need to take a stronger stance. The games shouldn't even be HELD in China with all the awful things happening there…this political correctness crap is getting too ridiculous!
I think censorship is good. Most of what people say is crap. And they think that they have a right to spout crap. Which they don't. They have the ability to spout crap, but not the right. Whoever came up with this whole idea about "free speech" is an idiot.
BOYCOTT THE OLYMPICS
Re: prome – lol I love your sense of irony
The IOC lied to the world originally by saying that they had extracted promises from China that China would improve their Civil Rights record if they were granted the Olympics. The IOC claimed that China promised to give the press open, unfettered use of the internet with no censorship. That was all a lie. The IOC admitted yesterday that they never asked for nor did they receive such promises. The IOC has been caught taking bribes from cities vieing for the Olympics. Salt Lake City was corruption at its finest. The world needs to stop participating in the Olympics until the IOC disbands. If it can reform with some participants who aren't crooks and have a smattering of decency, maybe at sometime in the future the Olympics can start again.
The ioc do olympics, not politics. Try and not give sport more controversial issues than it already has to deal with
Nash I think you have hit the nail on the head. By the way there are some very Juvenile individuals on here!
They're hammering it out. Don't getcher boxers all in a twist. Whatever did they do before they had the internet…oh, yeah, the athletes still competed. The media thinks its all about them now. They don't remember how to phone in results, lol. They were all born after 1975. They have blackberries. Whatever shall they do? This is really about internet withd-d-d-d-d-rawel. Pffft.
Re: Anastasia – ok first of all, i'm guessing you have never been to china. so don't tell someone else to do research about it. read the news? you know the so called news in america is all about bashing china right? go buy some dye and change that nasty looking hair and eyebrows before you talk shit about something you know nothing about.
dumb people like you make it that much easier for the media to manipulate their readers. china is such a beautiful place, the people are nice and the culture is amazing. you don't see people getting dragged off the streets for saying chairman Mao was an asshole. trust me, i have done that in beijing.
and as for perez, you should really stick to what you do best. talking smack about people you don't like. and not go into the whole politics thing.
Is this somehow a surprise to anyone? Don't you rmemebr when those students got arrested and deported for writing a blog while in China about their feelings about the China/Tibet situation - geez wake up - this Olympics should have been boycotted!
Re: d – China is a beautiful place and the people are great
I'm talking about the GOVERNMENT. And you've obviously never read about the people kept as slaves, the toxic air, the censorship of anything anti-chinese, or how the Chinese people themselves fear to say anything about their government for fear of reprimands. You can't even peacefully protest in China without the cops breaking it up! So yes, do some research! And WTF do eyebrows have to do with anything? If you're going to be insulting at least be INTELLIGENT about it. Then maybe people will take you seriously as a human being and no one will think you're just a twelve year old boy 
What do I think? That it's not the IOC's place to come in and tell the Chinese Gov't how to govern. If someone from another country comes to the USA and doesn't like an aspect of the law or gov't, do we change it for them? No. The IOC and media should have thought about this BEFORE China was awarded this honour! People in China are killed for speaking out and what are we and the IOC up in arms about? Media forces not having access to the Internet?
Re: d – I can't believe how DUMB you are. I hope you're not chinese. Cause if you're, you really should stay in China until the day you die!
In regards to what you said "you don't see people getting dragged off the streets for saying chairman Mao was an asshole." That's only because those people didn't yell it out loud. I can assure you that the Chinese government would do anything to keep people NOT talking shit about their government! Mao was the foundation and the root of the Chinese communist. As a resut, they won't let you make any so called "offensive" comments about Mao as long as you're in China.
In addition, who says chinese people are not nice or the culture is not amazing? Besides, what does that have to do with hosting the Olypmics games? The government itself is fucked, that's enough to fucking boycott them and ban them from hosting the game! The idiots in the committee really should bang their heads against the walls. Serve them right for picking a fucked up and corrupt country to host the game in the first place!
I suggest to read more news from some NON chinese government media. I'm Chinese myself, being in Toronto, I still feel that the a lot of the Chinese media are being pressured by the Chinese government. A lot of the Chinese media are on the left wing.
Just be thankful you live in the USA, ingrates.
My, my, my, I do lub dose little Chinese peoples wit dare tiny little slanty eyes and dare black hairs all staight. I hope when the Lympics bees on da TB dat all dose little Chinese peoples be on the TB too so's I can see dem all.
First of all, I don't even know why the IOC even approved the Olympics to take place in China at all anyway!! The whole damn planet knows about the ongoing atrocities committed by the Chinese government, as well as it's strong-armed, totalitarian policies against it's own citizens. So fuck China, what else did the IOC expect?
Re: Buckwheat –
lol - Nice once Buckwheat!
THE CHINESE DICTATORSHIP PROMISED TO GIVE MORE FREEDOM TO ITS PEOPLE IN EXCHANGE FOR BEING AWARDED THE OLYMPICS.
WHAT THEY DID WAS JAIL MORE PEOPLE, MORE JOURNALISTS THAN BEFORE AND ARREST THOUSANDS OF TIBETANS.
THEY ACTUALLY CRACKED DOWN EVEN MORE ON THEIR PEOPLE IN PREPARATION FOR THE OLYMPICS.
WHY DID ANYBODY BELIEVE THE PROMISES OF A DICTATORSHIP???
THOUSANDS ARE EXECUTED EVERY YEAR.
THE EXECUTIONS ARE CONSIDERED STATE SECRETS.
GET AN OVERVIEW AT unmadeinchina.org
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From Rep. Frank Wolf & Rep. Chris Smith, just returned from China:
"We also visited an Internet café to see if access to the Internet was restricted by the Chinese government. It was. We tried to access a number of different Web sites, including the National Endowment for Democracy, information about the Dali Lama and media sites including Voice of America and Reporters Without Borders. None of the sites would allow us access. All came up with an error message… China is not progressing. It is regressing. It is more violent, more repressive, and more resistant to democratic values than it was before we opened our ports to freely accept Chinese products."
"There have been reports by groups such as Amnesty International that the Chinese government has rounded up people in the streets of Beijing who might "threaten stability" during the Olympic Games, and has detained them without trial. Human Rights Watch has reported that the Chinese government has tightened restrictions on domestic and foreign media, in an effort to control what information leaks out during coverage of the Olympics about China's repressive and violent nature."
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"China's desperation to conceal its true character leading up to the Games smacks of the Nazi bid for the Olympic Games. Analysts have likened the 2008 Beijing Olympics to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, in which Nazi Germany soft-pedaled its anti-Semitic agenda and plans for territorial expansion, fooling the international community with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany under the cover of the Olympic Games."
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Continuing to ingnore the promises made to the IOC and the international community, China has launched a fresh crackdown on supporters of the Dalai Lama. On July 14, a regulation was issued by the regional party and government disciplinary commissions, as reported by the state-run China Daily.
Actually, it is an ultimatum to present and retired communist party members and government employees in the Tibet Autonomous Region: they have been given two months to withdraw their children from overseas schools and monasteries run by what they refer to as the "Dalai clique," in India and other countries.
Failure to comply with the ultimatum: expulsion from the party and loss of employment.
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Since 1960, Tibetans in exile have been opening up schools, as well as monasteries and temples. There are now 83 schools outside of Tibet which offer Tibetan students a liberal education which respects their own heritage and is free of CCP propaganda. (Chinese is the main language of instruction of most Tibetan secondary schools). The Department of Religion and Culture of the Tibetan government in exile works to preserve the spiritual and cultural heritage of Tibet. It helps support 223 monasteries and 15 nunneries, while the Department of Education administers 82 schools: 64 in India, 14 in Nepal and 4 in Bhutan.
Despite its legal guarantees of self-governance and minority "protections," the Chinese dictatorship subjects the Uyghurs (a Muslim minority) to exactly the same methods of systematic violations of civil and political rights continually used against the Tibetans and Mongols: imprisonment, torture and even execution without trail, surveillance, (including threatening and encouraging the members of the ethnic group itself to spy on each other), surveillance of religious activities, forced sterilizations and abortions, coerced birth control, lack of freedom of movement, discrimination in the work place, exclusion from local government and economic development, discrimination against their culture, lack of freedom of assembly, population transfers, militarization, and the extraction of the natural resources of the area.
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The olympics are a sad joke. Thirty years ago you could pretend that it was all about the love of sport, but even the most delusional could not disguise the fact that it is about professional athletics and Nationalism.
China wanted the Olypics because of the pathetic but sadly true notion that it would bring international legitimacy. It should never have been given to them on that basis.
These Olympics - if they are remembered at all - will be considered of a piece with 1936 in Berlin.
I don't understand, for the life of me, why the Olympic Committee gave the 08 Olympics to China. With their track record regarding crimes against humanity and human rights — and who in their right mind would want to go to that God forsaken country anyways! Mike. I think you are right. China is a very real threat the US and the world. They are stealing US intellectual propery like crazy without any fear of prosecution. They are pigs — using up all the oil sources to fuel they ever growing country and population. Its totally scary.
the IOC is beyond stupid to think anyone could trust the chinese govt…not gonna happen.
i think you should stick to celebrity news and not politics.
the olympics is not about sports anymore, it's all about politics. People are saying it's a bad choice for them to have chosen Beijing in the first place. London is just as bad of a place to hold the Olympics. Why can't they choose a country and let the government fix it up themselves? Just like what Beijing has done - equestrian events are being held in Hong Kong.
If the same thing was being done in the United States, there would be no criticism towards the issue. Stop looking down on the Chinese people. They are already proving to the world what they can do. I don't see the United States being a choice for the Olympic Committee in the next coming years.
I'm disappointed with you, Perez. I thought you were much better than this.
China might not be the best state in the world but neither is any other country elsewhere. don't blame the IOC. blame it on your limited ignorant minds.
Re: Anastasia –
You're a fucking moron if you believe the toxic air bullshit. Before you bash a country and its people, why don't you first go there. THEN make your judgements. Otherwise, you're just a fucking stupid albino bitch spouting off false bullshit that the media feeds you. Fucktard.
White people are probably the Least Racist people on the planet. I work with people from all over the world and their opinions concerning blacks makes us look like we don't even know waht racism is Wait till China tehy don;t consider blacks to even be human. Maybe they have a good point to consider?
Re: sjef – LOL I don't have to go to LA to see how smoggy it is and neither do I have to go to China to know how bad it is. If it wasn't bad, why did they shut down all the factories in order to clean the air up for the olympics? DUH! lol
Re: sjef – I like how you ignore every argument that negates what you say and just focus on me being albino
I noticed you don't have a pic up of yourself. Hmm, I wonder what kind of troll you must be to rant facelessly online 
You don't even believe in what you're saying enough to make a decent argument 
China has not kept its promises to improve its human rights conditions! Conditions have even gotten worse… don't believe any of what you see during the games, China's propoganda will try to blind you, while all the political prisoners are locked away during the games..
To have the Olympic Games in China is just like to do an Extreme Makeover in Ethiopia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!IT IS A JOKE!!!!!
In the ancient Greece they stopped all sorts of military actions for the duration of the Olympic Games ( which lasted for 3 months) . THAT IS WHY THE OLYMPICS IS A SYMBOL OF PEACE AND UNITY………..So China, WITHDRAW your army out from Tibet!!!!!!
Re: sjef –
Are you a fucking retard??? Who says You need to experience the thing in order to make comments or judgement on it? Grow up, and stop being a fugtard!
IOC are too afraid of china, all those promises for a better human rights condition has not been made by the government. all this publicity about china doing better are just polishes for the olympics.
I'm a Chinese living in China. Most of you don't know China at all. Do you know the culture of China,the history of China . You wil change your mind if you have really been to China. It have become more openning and more deveoped. The imagine of China in most of your mind is still staying 1960s.It is unfair for China and Chinese people. If you really care about the deveiopment of China and Chinese people,you must go to China, observe the society via your own eyes.You will get a surprise. Don't always trust the media,please~