Posts Tagged with ‘Great-Firewall-of-China’

It seems every week there is a new country blocking YouTube. When Pakistan did, it took out most of the world's access to the site, but now it's China's turn.
In addition to YouTube, most news sites are being censored with a keyword block. Any page that contains words such as “Tibet” or “Dalai Lama” are being blocked, as well as Google News, most major world news outlets, Flickr, and Wikipedia.
With only 143 days left until the Beijing Olympics start, [...]

The issue of the “Great Firewall of China” is nothing new, but it becomes an issue when you have legions of foreign journalists and tourists arriving for the Summer Olympics this summer in Beijing. The Olympic organizing committee expects 20,000 foreign press members alone to arrive in a country where the Internet is locked down, stripped of most foreign news sites, links to human rights groups, and anything the government deems “subversive.”
Wang Hui, head of media relations for the organizing [...]