Olympic organisers agree to China blocking 'sensitive' internet sites - Times Online
The Times Online reports: "Kevan Gosper, the head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) press commission, confirmed that some of its officials had agreed to Chinese demands that some sensitive sites be blocked on the ground that they were not related to the Olympics."

Comment: It is again demonstrated how easy it is for a government to control internet access. We can only assume that in the future such government control over the internet will only increase, and the capability for such control will always exist, even in countries which prize free speech. There are ways around such control, of course, but the original dream of the internet as a global information commons has been dashed.