With the International Olympic Committee having admitted prior consent to the Chinese authorities to block access for foreign reporters to certain websites, the Falun Dafa Information Center, in cooperation with Internet freedom activists, hereby offers journalists in Beijing a resource to gain free access to information during their stay in China.
The Internet explosion of the 1990s was hailed as the death knell of governments that relied on information control to maintain power. Many believed that, unlike newspapers and television, the sheer volume of content and data entry points would make the new Internet medium impossible to censor.
A Chinese minister was served with legal papers Friday charging him with torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.