The Chinese government has quietly begun preventing access again to Web sites that it had stopped blocking during the Olympic Games in Beijing in August, Internet experts said on Tuesday.Liu Jianchao, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, said at his twice-weekly news conference on Tuesday in Beijing that the Chinese government had a right to censor Web sites that violated the country’s laws. He added that “some Web sites,” which he did not identify, had violated China’s law against secession by suggesting that there were two Chinas — a reference to the Beijing government’s longstanding position that mainland China and Taiwan form a single China.
http://nytimes.com/2008/12/17/world/asia/17china.html
http://iht.com/articles/2008/12/16/asia/china.phpChina defends latest web censorship
Chinese government officials have defended their decision to block several foreign news websites, including the BBC, as the country moves away from its pledge for uncensored internet access during the Beijing Olympics.The BBC, Voice of America, Hong Kong’s Ming Pao News and Asiaweek have all had their websites blocked in China since early December. Restrictions had previously been lifted in August, when foreign journalists demanded full access during the Olympics.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/dec/16/china-defends-latest-web-censorship
China Is Said to Restore Blocks on Web Sites
The Chinese government has quietly begun preventing access again to Web sites that it had stopped blocking during the Olympic Games in Beijing in August, Internet experts said on Tuesday.