Beijing Olympics 2008 on Flickr
Will it look like this next year?
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anton hazewinkel (61 months ago | reply)
Join the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign!
KonradS and [BLT]FQX added this photo to their favorites.
[BLT]FQX (61 months ago | reply)
Nice picture!
Hamed Saber (61 months ago | reply)
Sorry...
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china.sixty4 (61 months ago | reply)
Of course its a bloody different issue - The Beijing Olympics is something that China WANTS (and needs) the world to see - ON ITS OWN TERMS - There will be censorship around the time of the Olympics. Do not doubt it for one minute - China will censor everything that is not 120% positive about China!!!!!!
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Dutch Tom (61 months ago | reply)
Brilliant image. It's a shame that you can never really be sure it reaches the right people at all- and even if it does, if it 'registers'.
I do remember that when the Olympic Committee came over to Beijing the first two times, the GFW was 100% inactive. Good times.
Needless to say, it was 100% reinstated within about two hours after the committee left!
NowJustNic (61 months ago | reply)
Great idea Anton! And to Dutch Tom, let's hope it'll be unrestricted for A WHOLE TWO WEEKS during the games themselves ;-)...
anton hazewinkel (61 months ago | reply)
well it made Explore. hope it helps to draw some attention to the issue.
when authorities in UAE shut down Flickr, it generated a huge flow of (some of the finest) creativity with statements on censorship. will it happen now in China as well? or should we be afraid it might jeopardize our lives in China? I guess not, but somewhere in the back of my mind there is also caution ...
maybe I should change the scope of this group: www.flickr.com/groups/supercensor/
I started this group out of anger over censorship within Flickr, but the GFW would fit within the scope as well.
any ideas? would it appeal to friends of photography in China?
RuiHe (61 months ago | reply)
: ) tian liang would not appear in 2008 olympics ,let alone get gold medal ..he has retired ..
anton hazewinkel (61 months ago | reply)
maybe he joins again when nobody can see him ;)
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RoyChoi (61 months ago | reply)
there are 300 thousands internet polices in China, i hope that China and 2008 Olympics would be open to the world, include the internet information and the news.
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gwennaliann (61 months ago | reply)
Euh. I'm sorry, this is so sad to see that.
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Lili Fang (60 months ago | reply)
Hi Aton:
you know flickr has been blocked in china. well there is a way around it....
addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4286
p.s. you need to have firefox though.
jordan1962 (60 months ago | reply)
Full support from London!
Censorship in the 21st century sucks - let's fight it together!
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tochis (60 months ago | reply)
Great!
YlvaS (60 months ago | reply)
A background to censorship on internet
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4973114.stm
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anton hazewinkel (60 months ago | reply)
@YlvaS: unfortunately the news.bbc.co.uk site is banned as well in China ...
Herschel Rubinstein (60 months ago | reply)
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"RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE"
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arndalarm (60 months ago | reply)
Cool thing. I wondered about that idea some weeks ago and thought - cool, I'll see many pics of the Olympics on flickr just like last year during the football cahmpionship.
Then I asked myself about censorship in China but calmed myself with the idea that they just can censor everything. And hey, they can!
Now flickr is following the Chinese example...
nolifebeforecoffee☆ (60 months ago | reply)
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TuT's PhOtO (60 months ago | reply)
i was really sad and mad when i found china blocked flickr!．
the stupid government doing stupid thing again
i just dont understand doesnt flickr did anything aginst commie?
Well .dont complain .at least .we are living in China Not North Korea!
without any freedom .lets see how will it show the world a REAL CHINA
btw.i like the new INCO .lol
Canopus Archives (60 months ago | reply)
@TuT's PhOtO
There doesn't really seem to be an issue with showing the world the REAL China, the issue seems to be China not showing the REAL China to its citizens.
TuT's PhOtO (60 months ago | reply)
@ Canopus Archives
the problem is most chinese citizen believes every little thing the government say!
Do Not only blame the fake commie government .take google for a good example .they helped with the consorship.
www.google.cn .or go to www.google.com chinese .
search Chinese toothpaste .u will find completely different thing!
That is sooooooo amazing !.why dont they call it Google Customer made for China?
Google is just one of them! It is not only the chinese against the consorship..but also .Chinese citizen needs the worlds help!
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SHANstudio.net (44 months ago | reply)
I use firefox at home so I could access all the photos here.
My workplace uses the network from the US…no censorship!