Global Voices Online

China: Olympic Blocking and Unblocking

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 @ 09:14 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: China, Hong Kong (China)
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Human Rights
Languages:: Chinese
Special:: Olympics

This post is also available in:

mg:: Shina: Ny voasakana sy ny tsy voasakana...

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

Many websites, such as Radio free Asia, have been unblocked in China during Olympics, however, Liu Xiaoyuan pointed out that many local blog posts are still blocked. The unblocking is selective deal to political pressure, while blocking is still set as default policy. Citizen media such as inmediahk.net in Hong Kong is still blocked.

Posted by Oiwan Lam

Print version

Start the conversation

Recent Links also in East Asia

A fire burned down a hotel in a small town in An Hui province, 1 dead, 3 seriously injured when jumping down. It grabs the attention of blogsphere, however, not because it being thought as a tragedy, but that the 4 are all local officials long living there. It’s questioned whether that is a waste of public money for their living in the luxury hotel every day.

Chinese blogger Yang-zhizhu (杨支柱） sighed for the tragedy that a pair of parents choked their daughter so that they can have a boy under the cap of birth control in China, railing against the policy as forcing people to abandon “excessive” girls. In Chinese tradition, boys are much weighed over girls.

Indolent Indio from the Philippines looks back to the '80s for lessons on surviving the present economic slowdown.