OpenNet Initiative is a go-to source for
CPJ and anyone else who is interested in fact-based analysis of the Internet.
Its academic approach--it's a consortium of the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for
International Studies, University of Toronto, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, the
Advanced Network Research Group at the Cambridge Security Programme, University of Cambridge, and the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University--has made it an island
of accuracy and reasonableness in the ebb and flow of online
information.
The alert CPJ released Tuesday describes OpenNet Initiative's recent findings about the censoring of the Web in the run-up to the Games, and calls on China and the International Olympic Committee to live up to the pledge they both made in 2001--that there would be no restrictions on reporters covering the Games.
Since
the beginning of August, when revelations of Web censorship inside the
The bottom line
is that China's online controls are efficient but far from perfect. Given the
government's obsession with controlling the flow, though, it is doubtful that the small
advances made during the Olympics will survive the post-Games era.
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