Getting around Beijing firewalls
Reporters Without Borders is encouraging journalists covering the Beijing Olympics to skirt censorship with tips on how to get around firewalls, lock computer files and find safe translators.
In a guide published on the internet on Wednesday, the Paris-based organisation advised reporters to conduct phone calls and write e-mails with the knowledge that they may be monitored.
China has backed away from a promise to lift all internet blocks on foreign media.
The new guide will likely help only journalists who have not yet left for Beijing: The press freedom group says its web site, http://www.rsf.org, remains blocked in China.
Chinese officials assured news organisations "complete freedom to report" when bidding for the games seven years ago. The International Olympic Committee received further such assurances in April.
But, Kevan Gosper, a senior member of the International Olympic Committee, said this week that the promise applied only to sites related to "Olympic competitions".
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