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That was Wang Wei, secretary general of the Beijing Olympics organizing committee, after his country won its bid in 2001. </p> <p><em>Cheering! Rousing Applause</em>!</p> <p>"I don’t anticipate there will be any constraint," said Kevan Gosper, the head of the International Olympic Committee's press commission, in April. "They should have free access to the Internet."</p> <p><em>Applause.</em></p> <p>"My preoccupation and responsibility is to ensure that the Games competitions are reported openly to the world," Gosper said last Tuesday. "This didn’t necessarily extend to free access and reporting on everything that relates to China."</p> <p><em>Some confused clapping.</em></p> <p>"I have also been advised that some of the IOC officials had negotiated with the Chinese that some sensitive sites would be blocked," Gospar said the next day.</p> <p><em>Silence.</em></p> <p>Yes, when reporters logged in at the Beijing Olympics’ Main Press Center last week and found that dozens of humanitarian and media websites were digitally gagged -- including, in some instances, the ones they worked for -- they learned a civics lesson that a billion Chinese already knew: Silence is golden.</p> <p>Despite a string of pyrite promises by both Chinese representatives and the IOC, Internet access at the Olympics was cratered with blacked-out sites, including <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://www.amnesty.org/" target="_blank" s_oid="http://www.amnesty.org/" s_oidt="0">Amnesty International</a>, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/" target="_blank" s_oid="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/" s_oidt="0">L.A. Times Olympics Blog</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://www.wikipedia.org/" target="_blank" s_oid="http://www.wikipedia.org/" s_oidt="0">Wikipedia</a>. (Which left, what, MySpace and online backgammon?) </p> <p>Rob Faris of Harvard’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" s_oid="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/" s_oidt="0">Berkman Center for Internet and Society</a> called China's approach puzzling. "Providing a large number of journalists with a censored Internet connection when they were promised an open Internet is naturally going to draw a lot of critical stories in the media," he said.</p> <p>And so it did. It seemed that every major U.S. newspaper and broadcast network had its own story on China’s "Great Firewall," many stating how outrageous it was that Western media should have its information controlled by an oppressive regime.</p> </div> <a name="more" id="more"></a> <div class="entry-more"> <p>"I’m just disappointed and frustrated,” said one journalist <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp/25954368#25954368" target="_blank" s_oid="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp/25954368#25954368" s_oidt="0">interviewed on "NBC Nightly News</a>." Said another: “I can’t rely on getting all the information I need.” </p> <p>But NBC missed the obvious irony: The censored Internet was giving Western journalists a taste of what the Chinese people live with -- or without -- every day. </p> <p>Examples of China’s information tampering are virtually inexhaustible. In October, Reuters reported that when a Taiwanese iPod factory was discovered to be mistreating workers, some websites were sent text messages warning them not to write about the story -- "so that it is not exploited by those who want independence." In February, China asked domestic websites to boycott "decadent, backwards thoughts and culture" in favor of “beneficial audio-visual programmes meeting socialist norms." And in the aftermath of the May earthquake, which killed nearly 70,000 people, China acted to squelch talk of shoddy school construction and rescue efforts while urging the media to "emphasize positive propaganda."</p> <p>Perhaps anticipating similar requests last week, foreign media camped in Beijing did some positive propaganda emphasis of their own. After <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080801-china-opens-crack-in-great-firewall-for-olympic-presschina-opens-internet-for-press-ioc-declares-issue-solved.html" target="_blank" s_oid="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080801-china-opens-crack-in-great-firewall-for-olympic-pressc" s_oidt="0">China reacted to the uproar by unblocking a number of high-profile sites</a>, including those of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Chinese BBC, journalists seemed more than satisfied. Headlines began to say things like "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Olympics/idUSL131393420080801?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0" target="_blank" s_oid="http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Olympics/idUSL131393420080801?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0" s_oidt="0">Web curbs lifted</a>" (Reuters), <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7536583.stm" target="_blank" s_oid="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7536583.stm" s_oidt="0">"China lifts more Internet curbs</a>" (BBC) and "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121758515310004209.html?mod=googlenews_wsj" target="_blank" s_oid="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121758515310004209.html?mod=googlenews_wsj" s_oidt="0">China takes a more open stance with foreign press</a>" (Wall Street Journal). </p> <p>The IOC, no doubt desperate to move past the scandal, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://www.olympic.org/uk/news/media_centre/press_release_uk.asp?id=2667" target="_blank">released a statement saying</a>, "The media should be seeing a noticeable difference in accessibility to websites that they need to report on the Olympic Games." Open Internet access, it continued, "has always been assured by [Beijing Organizing Committee] and the Chinese authorities, and the IOC is pleased to see these reassurances being upheld."</p> <p>But both the IOC and the international media failed miserably to note that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/08/web-sites-china.html" target="_blank" s_oid="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/08/web-sites-china.html" s_oidt="0">hundreds if not thousands of sites remained unavailable</a> to both journalists and Beijing residents. And not just so-called sensitive sites relating to the Falun Gong movement, Tibet or Tiananmen Square. Huge personal and professional blogging platforms remained totally inaccessible. TypePad -- home of many news blogs, including most of the Times' -- is blocked, as is LiveJournal, one of the largest personal diary sites. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://www.msn.com.tw/" target="_blank" s_oid="http://www.msn.com.tw/" s_oidt="0">MSN’s Taiwan site</a> was blocked, as were U.S. news portals like the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://www.philly.com/" target="_blank" s_oid="http://www.philly.com/" s_oidt="0">Philadelphia Inquirer</a> and the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://huffingtonpost.com/" target="_blank" s_oid="http://huffingtonpost.com/" s_oidt="0">Huffington Post</a>. </p> <p>Curious readers can experiment for themselves. An online status monitoring site called <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html" target="_blank" s_oid="http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html" s_oidt="0">WebSitePulse.com has a "China Firewall test" tool</a>, which lets you input a site's address to see if it's working in Beijing. </p> <p>Whatever that tool reveals to be blocked, it appears, is also blocked in the Olympic press center (a colleague at the Games tried 10 random sites I gave him from inside the center -– and the results matched the WebSitePulse test exactly). </p> <p>I called WebSitePulse and asked for a list of sites those using its tool had found to be censored since Sunday, when China did its round of unblocking. The company sent me <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pTUl8ENWP_9XsSXjp5s5mFA" target="_blank" s_oid="http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pTUl8ENWP_9XsSXjp5s5mFA" s_oidt="0">a list of 370 sites that were still unavailable</a>, either to journalists or most Beijing residents, both of which groups get broadband access from China Netcom, the dominant state-run Internet provider. And that’s likely only a fraction of all the blocked sites.</p> <p>The IOC -- backing far off of its original pledge of unfettered access, is now apparently content defining an open Internet as the set of Web pages journalists "need to report on the Olympic Games." Fine, but what happens in the likely event of a protest this month by any of the legion of Chinese dissent groups seeking to raise awareness of their human rights situation? If reporters "need" to seek information from the Falun Gong’s website, or the sites of pro-Tibet groups, or blogs from Beijing residents who might know something, they better wear a helmet or risk slamming into a firewall. </p> <p><script type="text/javascript"></script><script src="/web/20080814212635js_/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.shared/js/sitecatalyst.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </p> </div> </div>  <table style="padding-bottom:18px; clear:both;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td nowrap="nowrap"><b>Bookmark it:</b>  <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">  </script> <script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635js_/http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript" language="javascript"></script> </td> <td> </td> </tr> </table> <div class="footerbox"> <div class="entry-footer"> August 5, 2008 | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/08/hundreds-of-web.html" rel="Bookmark" title="Hundreds of websites still censored at Beijing Olympics">Permalink</a> </div> </div> <br/> <div class="footerline"></div> <div class="trackbacks"> <a name="trackback" id="trackback"></a> <div class="trackbacks-header">TrackBack</div> <div class="trackbacks-info"> <p><b>TrackBack URL for this entry:</b><br/> http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/816965/32059986</p> <p>Listed below are links to weblogs that reference <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/08/hundreds-of-web.html" rel="Bookmark" title="Hundreds of websites still censored at Beijing Olympics">Hundreds of websites still censored at Beijing Olympics</a>:</p> </div> </div> <br/> <div class="footerline"></div> <div class="trackbacks-content"> </div> </div> <div style="padding-top:13px;"> <a name="comments" id="comments"></a> <div class="comments">  <div class="comments-content">  <a id="c125372164"></a> <div class="comment" id="comment-125372164"> <div class="comment-content"> <p>I clicked on the link of 370 sites that were still blocked. Many of the sites listed were porn sites. Please check your sources and do a little investigation before making sensationalist claims.</p> </div> <p class="comment-footer"> Posted by: Larry V | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/08/hundreds-of-web.html#comment-125372164">August 05, 2008 at 04:17 PM</a> </p> </div> <a id="c125380832"></a> <div class="comment" id="comment-125380832"> <div class="comment-content"> <p>"many" does not mean "all"</p> <p>that means at least some of the sites are not pornographic.</p> <p>the point is, the international press should be boycotting the games altogether if the chinese are not living up to their free press promises -- which they're not.</p> </div> <p class="comment-footer"> Posted by: lil_gaucha | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/08/hundreds-of-web.html#comment-125380832">August 05, 2008 at 05:22 PM</a> </p> </div> <a id="c125383882"></a> <div class="comment" id="comment-125383882"> <div class="comment-content"> <p>It's true, many of the sites are pornographic -- but not most. Whether China should be filtering porn is a separate issue, but please note: the spreadsheet I link to has many more than 370 entries. The 370 are just the total unique sites since <b>Saturday<b>, when China lifted some of the curbs. If you look through those, you'll see a large number of non-porn sites still being blocked.</p> </div> <p class="comment-footer"> Posted by: David Sarno | <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/08/hundreds-of-web.html#comment-125383882">August 05, 2008 at 05:54 PM</a> </p> </div> </div> </div>   <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/web/20080814212635js_/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.shared/js/comments.js"></script> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"></script> <form id="comment-form" method="post" action="https://web.archive.org/web/20080814212635/http://www.typepad.com/t/comments"> <input type="hidden" name="entry_id" value="53788848"/> <div class="comments-open" style="margin-top: 20px"> <div class="comments-open-header">Add a comment</div> <div class="comments-open-content">If you are under 13 years of age you may read this message board, but you may not participate.<br/> <a 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