after the Chinese government continues to block free internet access to the internet for journalists covering the Olympic Games, Reporters without frontiers and other organizations have started to publicly protest. the story however got a whole new twist once voices arose that Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee has personally assured the Chinese government that they can handle all internet-related decisions according to their own will.
ABC Austrlia and hundreds of others sources report that:
sites that are blocked include those for human rights group Amnesty International, the Tibet government-in-exile, press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders and various Chinese dissident organisations. No high-ranking IOC official has been available to comment publicly today about the breaking of the promise of a free and open Beijing Games. But privately IOC members are enraged by the blocking of sensitive websites and the use of spyware in media hotels to monitor internet use.
Fair and free games you promised Mr. Rogge. But what’s a promise worth these days?
I believe.