InternetSome Web sites remain blocked at Beijing Olympics (AP)

AP - Some Web sites remained inaccessible to reporters as competition got under way Saturday at the Beijing Olympics.

BEIJING - Some Web sites remained inaccessible to reporters as competition got under way Saturday at the Beijing Olympics. China's communist government routinely filters its citizens' access to the Internet, but in the runup to the Olympics Chinese officials and officials with the International Olympic Committee vowed there would be no censorship of the Internet for accredited journalists covering the games. Some sites were unblocked 10 days ago after reporters arriving to cover the games found them blocked and complained to the IOC, but others remain inaccessible, including sites related to the Tiananmen Square protests, Tibet, Taiwan and the Dalai Lama. While searches for these keywords turned up long lists of Web sites, attempts to open some of them resulted in a message saying the page could not be displayed. A search for information about the outlawed Falun Gong spiritual movement not only drew that error message but froze the search engine and prohibited further searches for several minutes. Sites that host thousands of blogs appeared... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

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