The alleged human rights abusers are not helping their case after the problems in Tibet. According to The Tech Herald China is trying to censor the internet in U.S. owned hotels during the Olympics this summer. The Chinese government is being accused of "exerting pressure on U.S. owned hotels to install Internet filtration systems that will censor online content during the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing." The accusations come at the hand of U.S. Senator Sam Brownback. He stated that the Chinese government sent orders to at least two hotels, and continued to say that China is turning the 2008 Olympics into the "Olympics of oppresion."
China wants the U.S. owned hotels to install internet filtration systems to be used to censor certain online content during the Olympics. My guess would be....any news sites, blogging sites, Wikipedia, and Google. This is the trend within the Great Firewall, so most likely the same content will be banned by the government during the games. I wonder how many laptops passing through customs will have some kind of anonymity software installed? My guess is...too many to count. Some more information on internet privacy and maintaining anoymity can be found here.
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