hogwash

I have a great deal of respect for Amnesty International and everyone else who fights for an uncensored internet.  After all, we are all adults.  Well, at least I am.  I also have a serious problem with communist China’s human rights violations and various restrictions on personal freedoms.

However, that is another topic for another day.  Amnesty International, and the press’s beef with China and the International Olympic Committee’s agreement to restrict internet action is complete Hogwash.  What did they expect?  After all, this is communist China.

If anyone should be protesting anything, it is that the IOC agreed to have the Olympics in China to begin with.  But here is the deal, they did.  Now China is receiving a certain amount of international pressure in regards to their human rights violations that would not have happened otherwise.  So, I get it, but this is the Olympics people, not some LAN party.

Of course, if the Chinese government was smart, they would just call it “The Patriot Act” and everyone would be fine with it.

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By Karolos Grohmann
BEIJING, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Saturday faced mounting questions over Internet censorship, days before the Beijing Games, despite earlier pledges that its use would be unfettered.
While China has allowed access to some websites that were blocked earlier in the week, many sites still remain inaccessible to reporters covering the Beijing Olympics that start on Aug. 8. On Friday the IOC had said the issue had been resolved.
“We would like to see the greatest degree of openness,” IOC communications director Giselle Davies told reporters.
“There has been no change in the IOC’s position. The IOC would like to see open access,” she said in response to several questions regarding the IOC’s determination to push through what it had promised.

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