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In Beijing find about something less than a year the Olympic Games place. For Reporters Without Borders (RSF) an excellent occasion the strict internet censorship of China to criticize. The interest group goes to name even so far round the country “' s worldly largest prison for journalists and cyberdissidenten”. On this moment there thirty journalists and fifty internet users to verkommeren in Chinese prison sit, says RSF.

But it do not turns only the tens dissidents that have been locked up. Whole the Chinese population is subjected at a censorship regime, say the journalists. “The authorities blocks thousand newssites and disturbs the Chinese, Tibetaanse and Uyghuraanse programs of ten International radio stations. After focusing on websites and forums, concentrate to divide the authorities self now on blogs and sites video”, declares RSF. As Chinese blogtools words block that sensitively lie by the authorities.

To support of the RSF-campaign publishes the organization a report about the measures that the Chinese authorities takes the internet entry to check.,. The authors is an anonymous technical expert by a Chinese internet business, an insider thus.

Trip to the heart of the censorship lays the structures nudity that for it see to that Chinese surfers nothing see a little not by the authorities approved is. of. It describes for instance how uitbaters of newssites via sms-messages and instant messaging at the same time on the height be brought as articles on their websites removed must become.

According to how important the censors an incident find, get site-uitbaters five until thirty minutes an article to change or to scrap, according to the report.

Reporters Without Borders hopes quietly that her campaign a reaction will provoke of the Internationally Olympic Comit (IOC), the organizer of the Olympic Games. When Beijing self candidate put, got the IOC of China the promise that about it more internet freedom would come - and thus has the comit according to RSF the possibility on table to knock.