Posted on 12/09/2010 3:43:52 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Foreign media websites apparently blocked in China
BEIJING (AFP) - The websites of several foreign media outlets appeared to be blocked in China on Thursday on the eve of the award ceremony in Oslo honouring the 2010 Nobel peace laureate, jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo.
AFP attempts to access the websites of television networks CNN, the BBC and Norwegian public broadcaster NRK were unsuccessful, with the message "Internet Explorer cannot display the web page" appearing on the screen.
China on Thursday stepped up its criticism of the Oslo-based Nobel committee that in October chose Liu -- who was jailed in December 2009 for 11 years on subversion charges -- as this year's honoree.
"Those people at the Nobel committee have to admit they are in the minority. The Chinese people and the overwhelming majority of people in the world oppose what they do," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters.
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Funny how, with all the talk about how they are opening up and overtaking us economically, it is still very easy sometimes to forget that at the end of the day China is run by totalitarian scum.
The media in the US is nearly as controlled.
NOOOO?!?!?!(in Latka’s voice)
REALLY!?!
Inconceivable.
To think that the Chinese would actually stifle free speech.
Shocking! You coulda knocked be over with a n ocean-going freight container.
A country that killed tens of millions because they disagreed would not hesitate to keep their subject in the dark like mushrooms.
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