Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Brought to you by Olympics


Olympics are coming, and with it BBC News. Guardian Newspaper is reporting that Chinese authorities stopped blocking BBC News in English. The BBC website in Chinese is still blocked, but many find ways around the blocs. China has 210 million citizens with internet access, but most do not speak English.

But this is not an end to Chinese censorship. Last week, Guardian reports, China blocked all foreign coverage of disturbance in Tibet. Yahoo, Guardian and YouTube were all affected. Guardian described it as a “deliberate act of unacceptable censorship.”

Even though, censorship is still strong, but allowing Chinese citizens to access BBC is a small step in the right direction.

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