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| China Wants US-Owned Hotels to Censor Internet                     |
|   from the because-china’s-an-autocracy-that’s-why dept.           |
|   posted by timothy on Monday May 05, @07:53 (Censorship)          |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/05/0257217 |
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jp_papin writes “The Chinese government is demanding that US-owned hotels
there [0]filter Internet service during the upcoming Olympic Games in
Beijing, US Senator Sam Brownback has alleged. The Chinese government is
requiring US-owned hotels to install Internet filters to ‘monitor and
restrict information coming in and out of China,’ Brownback said
Thursday. ‘This is an insult to the spirit of the games and an affront to
American businesses,’ he said. ‘I call on China to immediately rescind
this demand.’ US State Department spokesman Tom Casey said he wasn’t
aware of those specific requests from the Chinese government, but
Brownback said he got the information on Internet filtering from ‘two
different reliable but confidential sources.’ The State Department is
apparently continuing dialog with China about freedom of expression.”