On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:12:01 +0800, "riverman"
wrote:


"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
.com...
riverman wrote:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/index.html is a website with video clips from
the Olympics. When I try to view any of the clips, I get a message over
the screen saying that 'NBC Olympic Video clips are not allowed to be
viewed in your country."

Interesting. I'm sort of curious if this post even gets to you guys. :-)

This has been in the news here in the states lately. Both
Yahoo and Google have been hauled before a congressional
committee and yelled at.

There was a piece on NPR the other day where one guy in
the states and one guy in China were on the phone and
trying to do identical searches. I wonder if you can
listen to this ?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5218083



Yep, that came through. Very interesting (and impressive that you had that
link). I opened the same websites as the NPR guy, and got the same hits as
he did, not as the guy in Bejing. Later in the broadcast, he mentioned that
China censors sites in Chinese (or Cantonese, I imagine) originating from
Hong Kong, so maybe there isn't any censorship here in HK, and my inability
to open that NBC link was as Joe F mentioned.

Interesting thing: we cannot get the Olympics here. Only one channel carries
ANY coverage, and thats a local station, in Chinese, and only for a few
hours each day.

--riverman


Doesn't work in Canada either -- maybe NBC doesn't want to reveal to
the rest of the world what it's telling Americans about their team's
Olympic performance. ))

Peter

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