Pretty lame.

China will censor the Internet used by foreign media during the Olympics, an organising committee official confirmed Wednesday, reversing a pledge to offer complete media freedom at the games.

Posted by Gerardo Orlando as Uncategorized, Censorship, Human Rights, Sports at 11:24 am

Will the West actually boycott the games? That’s very unlikely. But China’s crackdown on Tibet is causing real concern as it exposes the truth about the totalitarian regime.

Posted by Gerardo Orlando as Censorship, Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Military, Tibet at 5:26 pm

China bans LiveJournal.

Posted by Gerardo Orlando as Censorship, Domestic Politics at 10:32 pm

After this execution, China has a long way to go on the huma rights front:

Chinese officials have secretly executed a demonstrator who took part in a massive protest in 2004 against a hydro-electric dam in the south-western province of Sichuan, lawyers and family members said yesterday.

In a grim postscript to the summer of rural unrest that overtook China two years ago, Chen Tao was executed for “deliberately killing” a riot policeman during the demonstration, when 100,000 farmers staged a sit-in against the building of the 186-metre-high Pubugou dam on the Dadu river in Hanyuan county. The dam was set to flood thousands of people out of their homes and there were complaints that compensation was inadequate.

Posted by Gerardo Orlando as Censorship, Domestic Politics, Human Rights at 4:19 pm

Life in prison - that the sentence for a 28-year-old operator of porn sites in China.

Posted by Gerardo Orlando as Censorship, Culture, Domestic Politics, Human Rights at 5:13 pm

China is determined to censor the use of the Internet by its citizens, and activists are accusing US technology companies of providing the tools to enable this censorship.

Posted by Gerardo Orlando as Censorship, Domestic Politics, Technology, Trade at 11:36 am

This story makes it clear that China is still a dictatorship that does not respect human rights.

Posted by Gerardo Orlando as Censorship, Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, U.S. Relations at 3:39 pm

They can try all they want, but over time the censors in China are fighting a losing battle. They’re now tightening controls on foreign news.

Posted by Gerardo Orlando as Censorship at 6:58 pm