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.


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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.

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