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Amnesty International's website is unreachable for journalists covering the Olympics one day after the organization issued a harsh report criticizing China's failure to make good on promises to improve human rights leading up to the Olympics. A more practical complaint from the press room — the internet is sloooooooooow. Welcome to our nightmare, guys. A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, while admitting that websites for certain "cults" will indeed be blocked, blamed other inaccessibility issues on foreign web hosts. “There are some problems with a lot of websites themselves that makes it not easy to view them in China,” Liu Jianchao said. Hmmmm. [Source]
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Im sorry, but did anyone REALLY think there would be a different outcome for this ?
The chinese government are a bunch of bullying thugs, look at the story this week about the "hush money" to the familes that lost kids in the earthquake, and now "slooooow" internet on the Amnesty site. Lies lies and more lies, This will be the only time China gets the Olympics and once again they will remain a lughing stock in the eyes of the rest of the world
Is this worth the space? Those journalists have nothing better to do? Tomorrow they might write about another piece of a website being blocked. They are totally ignorant, if not stupid. Everybody knows there is censorship in China. Relaxing it doesn't mean doing away with it.
Or are they being sarcastic?
To masterbater,
I also think the block of AI is senseless as it crew USA's arsh sometimes too.
As to your "This will be the only time China gets the Olympics", I cannot agree more.
Lets be looking forword to the CLOSING ceremony, when hijacked China will be liberated, from the West. Only then, Mr. masterbater, can you be at peace jerking off alone in your dark basement, without a disturbing China in your nano-head.
This is precisely why the games should never have been granted to China. This is no surprise. Every reasonable soul in the world knew we were being fed a pile when they promised to address civil liberty, freedom of press, pollution… So we are now expected to believe that the IOC actually took the Chinese government at their word? My goodness. Must be nice to live in such a fantasy world China is a CORRUPT country which has no interest in free speech. Why should that surprise anyone? At least half the Chinese population live under grinding poverty and have no idea where their next will come from. The educated elite have been bought off and so have many internet providers and search engines in the West.
Your recital of all media cliche is highly evaluated. Thanks!
let me guess, your asian right ?
I agree with Masterbater (did I really just type that out--get a new name douche). But, names aside, I do agree with you about you views about China and the "no fun" games.
It's sad that the only rebuttal the Chinese have is to say that your views are "cliche". Isn't that a cliche in it of itself? I think so. Well, I listen to both sides--the Chinese and Western--and I make my own decisions, thank you very much. If only the Chinese had the capacity to do this....
Hey "eastman", why don't you give us a logical reason why China blocks and censors sites? Huh? I bet you can't....
i reckon hes an ABC (half rice/half fries) who is Chinese only when he wants to be and a Westerner only when he wants to be.I Got used to their squalid little rebuttals by now
It's indeed foolish of them to block the Internet, but on the other hand, many western media have spun too many tales. They have been overly enthusiastic about digging out any negative news. So far I have not seen more objective criticism from them.