Prior to the Olympics this summer, there was a furor when foreign journalists complained that the Chinese government was blocking ‘sensitive’ sites. In the spirit of the games, those were opened up. But now, after the outsiders have long gone, the government has re-blocked several of those sites, including the BBC Chinese site and Voice of America in Chinese, the BBC reports.
According to a Chinese government spokesman, the sites – which also include Asiaweek, Reporters Without Borders and some Hong Kong and Taiwanese sites – include content that violates Chinese law. But spokesman Liu Jianchao would not confirm that the government was behind the censorship.
