CNN just reported that Chinese official will make hotels use spyware against foreign guests. Also, the link below is their backtracking on promises of free press (IOC is going along with it) and how tough it is to get phone numbers like you have to give your passport and mother's maiden name. Amnesty also reports 22 chinese athlete banned from games because of political views.

China censoring Internet access at Olympics - CNN.com

"For an artist to always evolve, they must wear their hearts on their sleeve and feel pain as much as they feel pleasure" A quote for my upcoming artwork.

spyware on foreign guests-- except for Blacks and Mongolians. Apparently, hotel owners are being told to not let them in because they have been complaining about the small condom sizes.

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I don't trust american news sources on this.

And that the internet is censored in china is a long known fact, why do they cook it up right now?

Lieber stehend sterben als kniend leben!


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pfff...hypocrites.

NY Times, CNN, nobody seem to be interested in the Olympic as what it is...A frigging sporting event.

There's a concerted anti china propaganda wave going on in western media, I observe it for a while already.
Disgusting to me!
Goebbels would like it though.

Everyone should know, even in America, the internet is censored, thanks to the patriot act. CNN really like to manipulate tiny little things to get their distorted political view.

As a economics major, id like to point out... communism is a type of economy not government.

China's government is totalitarian/obligarchy, their economy is probably a better example of free market capitalism than the American economy.

This doesn't really surprise me at all, the Chinese are particularly sensitive to public embarassment and criticism. Saving face and all. They want the world to only see their good side, thus they crush dissent.

I have yet to see any neutral, much less positive, report on the Olympics on CNN. Most of the allegations surrounding blocked web sites, red tapes and even difficulty in getting a cell phone (a Cuban journalist complains about having to provide a copy of the passport and mother's maiden name to get a cell phone), if you think about it, are fairly inconsequential. Come on, would you really hand out cell phones to strangers when attacks against Western atheletes are MOST LIKELY attempted during the Olympics?

The letter to the hotel chains seems to be the only substantial allegation, yet I failed to see the original letter, or the full translated version, anywhere on the Web. Spyware? what kind? Is that the word used in the original text? Smells fishy to me. Senator Brownback is known religious freak, and I wonder why the State Department didn't get a hold of the copy first?

As to the Amnesty International allegations, let's not forget America is on their black list for a laundry list of human right abuses. China allegedly locked up 30 something Tibetan "dissidents" (some of which I suspect, burned down a building or two to express it) without due process, which is about what, 1/8 of the number in Guantanamo.

CNN, along with a host of other media outlets, seem to be compiling a list of negatives regarding China, at a time leading up to the Olympics. If this is the best of their effort, I'd say China did pretty damn well so far.

Spyware or small condom? If I have to choose...

I better cancel that monthly recurring $9.95