China restricting their countries internet access as the Olympics are about to begin
The country of China has been reported to have broken their promise in saying that they would have their internet available without restrictions. Why is this you may wonder ? It is due to "China's authoritarian government and the tight social controls exerted by the Communist Party." China is still trying to block out their society from seeing how things are outside of China in which would create a possible revolt against the government in attempts to overthrow it to become a free country. Olympic officials have said this problem with the internet is hurting China's attempt to portray themselves as an image of a "modern, open state." Among the sites being blocked have to do with religion one source said. I think this is a very shady thing China is doing, as I thought China was trying to get other nations to trust them. By keeping a restricted internet access I find that very hard to do. This site ran by the Harvard University http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4504
states how China promised 8 years ago during the bidding process to get the Olympics in their country to have unfiltered internet.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/01/olympics.internet.ap/index.html
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