Saturday, April 05, 2008

IOC has Beijing on its knees: no internet censorship

transparent version of :Image:Olympic flag.Image from WikipediaIn the PR-games for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the organizers of the 2008 Beijing Olympic games the IOC has booked a 100 percent success, writes the DPA - that is the German news agency, quoting the French daily Le Monde. (It might help if you also read my earlier cynical entry about this game.)
We will in China not enjoy unlimited freedom, but at least the media will be able to search for FLG-websites during those 16 days.
"We have a guarantee from the organization about having free Internet access for the accredited media during the 16 days of the Games. But we don't know yet how many days before the Games we'll get free Internet," Gosper told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
I'm not sure whether I will be this period in China, since I hate sports and with so many diligent observers present in the country, I might as well take a holiday. But when they offer this kind of challenges, to test the internet censorship during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, I might as well stay and play along with the game.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Could "free" means "no charge" or "unblocked" ?