China to Limit Web Access During Olympic Games

BEIJING — The International Olympic Committee failed to press China to allow fully unfettered access to the Internet for the thousands of journalists arriving here to cover the Olympics, despite promising repeatedly that the foreign news media could “report freely” during the Games, Olympic officials acknowledged Wednesday.


full story from NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/sports/olympics/31china.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

China censoring Internet access at Olympics

BEIJING, China (AP) -- Olympic organizers are backtracking on another promise about coverage of the Beijing Games, keeping in place blocks on Internet sites in the Main Press Center and venues where reporters will work.
At the Olympic Green in Beijing, a foreign journalist uses Internet services provided in the Main Press Center.The blocked sites will make it difficult for journalists to retrieve information, particularly on political and human rights stories the government dislikes.

full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/30/olympics.internet.ap/index.html

Remember How The Net Neutrality Fight Began

No matter how hard global incumbent lobbyists and public relations officials may distort it (and do they ever), their goal remains clear: ISP executives in uncompetitive markets, flush with envy over content operator ad income, want to get their hands on this revenue to please investors -- despite already being paid for bandwidth.

full article:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Remember-How-The-Net-Neutrality-Fight-Began-93310

Help! the Internet is Dying

Advocates of network neutrality claim that the telecommunications companies have entered a deal that means that the Internet will, by 2012, function the same way as cable television packages, meaning that we will only be able to access a small number of websites by paying a standard fee, and we will have to pay extra in order to access a wider selection of websites, with an even higher subscription fee for the elite who can afford to access the whole of the Internet.
Full article here: http://www.associatedcontent.com/
article/819903/help_the_internet_is_dying.html?page=2&cat=9

Behind China's Great Firewall

In light of the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing, more scrutiny is being placed on China's Web-filtering practices. PC Magazine takes a closer look.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2317415,00.asp

2012: The Year The Internet Ends--URGENT READ

http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality

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Woeser’s Middleway Blog Hacked Again

Beijing-based Tibetan writer/blogger Woeser has been writing the “Tibet Update” series on her Middleway blog, hosted outside of China. About 3 am Beijing time on May 27, 2008, her blog was hacked by a group calling themselves “Chinese Hongke Alliance.”

(A profile of Woeser, written by Washington Post’s Beijing correspondent Jill Drew is here.)