Censorship? In China? The Deuce You Say!

Apparently, Captain Renault works for the International Olympic Committee.

BEIJING (Reuters) – The media should have been told they would not have total Internet freedom before arriving for the Beijing Olympics, a senior IOC official said on Thursday, as rights groups piled criticism on both the IOC and host China.

As the row over censorship continued, International Olympic Committee (IOC) press chief Kevan Gosper told Reuters that both he and the international media had been taken by surprise that some politically sensitive websites had been blocked.

“It’s learning of it at almost the last minute that I think is destabilizing the international media and certainly embarrassing for me, as up till 48 hours ago I was insisting it would be free and uncensored Internet access,” Gosper said.

The IOC is trying to play us all for fools and it ought to tick the MSM off. No one in their right mind could believe that the IOC didn’t know that China was censoring web sites. Heck, China hired Google to build its very own search engine specifically so that the government could monitor what sites did and did not get through. It was pretty big news two and a half years ago. All the cool kids were writing about it. China was picked to host the 2008 Summer Games in 2001. In order to believe Mr. Gosper, you’d have to believe that…

I’m sorry. You can’t believe Mr. Gosper. You just can’t. The man’s statement is so full of crap that I’m surprised his eyes didn’t change color just talking to Reuters. Unfortunately for the millions upon millions of the ChiComs’ victims, the free media of the West knows how to stay bought and this story won’t be an issue for them at all.

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