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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Chinese Government Bans Unauthorized Video

I predicted December 27 that the "main event" at this summer's Olympic games -- now 200 days away -- will be the "clash between the Chinese Communist Party, which will use biometrics, surveillance, censorship and an army of goons to suppress information about China's many problems, versus journalists and tourists, who will use digital cameras, wireless gadgets, and the Internet to show China’s dirty laundry to the world." The government has been getting a head start recently by rounding up all critics and proclaiming that "only state-sanctioned companies would be allowed to broadcast video and audio files on the INTERNET."

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