Inside China’s Forbidden Olympic Village
IN the forbidden Olympic village, China is making hacks do their research the old fashioned way:
(Picture: Beau Bo D’Or Website)
OLYMPIC organizers unblocked some Internet sites at the main press center and media venues Friday while others remained off limits for journalists covering the Beijing games.
The move falls short of the “free and unfettered access” the organizers and Chinese officials had promised for months. However, it was an improvement from earlier in the week when sites for the likes of Amnesty International or Tiananmen Square could not be opened.
Senior International Olympic Committee officials met late into the night Thursday with their Chinese counterparts and said they reached an agreement to unblock sites, although the IOC statement said the details were still being formulated…
Are the hacks allowed to take reference books?
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August 4th, 2008 at 11:23 am
…depends if you are a dissident taking tea in London, I suppose…?
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Just as they did not want Hong Kong back, merely to be able to complain about it, the Olympics will be the beginning of the end for the repressive communist regime in China.
It may take many years, and probably millions of lives, but they are used to that.
Regimes like Hitler’s Germany, Soviet Russia, Zimbabwe, Yugoslavia, Franco’s Spain, and so on simply cannot survive indefinitely. They all fail, because the underlying philosophy is fatally flawed.
What happens after is anyone’s guess. My personal guess is a break up into autonomous regions / countries as happened in the USSR.
The we have to ask whether this makes the world a better or safer place.