Comments on: Olympics preview: Beijing's Internet censorship, surveillance

Will the Internet be wide open in Beijing or will authorities be watching online traffic during the Olympics in August? I offer my best guesses.

[silencewoo]

Great job, thanks a lot for your objective analysis

[amandachuck]

If you call a long excuse for China's draconian policies "objective" then yes, you are right. I thought the blog was good until the end where I saw either the author is afraid to tell the truth or really buys into the silliness he justifies. "Well Jimmy did it too?" wasn't a valid excuse in 1st grade and it isn't one now. ;)

[Seaspray0]

Agree with silencewoo, good job.

[amandachuck]

If you call a long excuse for China's draconian policies "objective" then yes, you are right. I thought the blog was good until the end where I saw either the author is afraid to tell the truth or really buys into the silliness he justifies. "Well Jimmy did it too?" wasn't a valid excuse in 1st grade and it isn't one now.

[jeverettk]

" A study found that most Chinese approved of government controls over the Internet."

AND...a similar study found that most Chinese approved of government controls over surveys conducted at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 50 different comment responses included the identical phrasing, "After all, the government funds the Academy. If they're paying for it, shouldn't they have control over what they get?"

[grayboe]

With American citizens like this guy we have a long way to go to re-establish our freedoms. Obviously the writer thinks its OK if the Government here in the U.S. chooses to spy on him. I personally think they have gone too far and we need to reverse the trend of spying on Americans without a search warrant.

[childrenofthedragon]

No offense to the absolute splendid and extraordinarily intelligent remarks of amandachuck and grayboe, but these two have failed to realize that Mr. Webster's potent point being: many of us in the West readily jump on the anti-Communist China bandwagon, without realizing that our governments are frequently guilty of same or similar "crimes". If those of us in the West are so civilized, we need to begin fixing the issues starting with ourselves. And NO, it does not mean that we should NOT criticize China, it only means that we should ALSO criticize ourselves.