SanJoseInside.com Among Those Blocked By Chinese Gov’t
Angered over the Chinese Government’s decision to limit access to the internet, Metro Newspapers and its affiliates Metroactive, Metro Silicon Valley, SV411, SanJose.com and SanJoseInside.com have decided to vehemently protest the affront to free speech by staging what they are calling “venue-hugging” at certain sites used for Olympic events in and around Beijing.
“It’s really just non-violent protesting, espoused by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr, perfected by the Berkeley tree-huggers and the Naked Man,” explained Metro’s Dan Pulcrano. “We will have operatives ready to disrupt events by “hugging” time clocks, setting up camps at the bottoms of swimming pools or just observing certain events in the buff within camera shot.”
When asked the goal of such hug-ins, he didn’t hesitate by admitting that having DeCinzo standing naked in front of a massive, communist tank, holding up its progress with just pencil, paper and wicked anti-establishment caricatures would be “a home-run.”
While other media behemoths are choosing to protest in more mainstream ways like appealing to the good-senses of high-ranking Chinese government officials, they nonetheless applaud the rogue operatives known unofficially as the “merry Metro affiliates.”
“It’s really the feel good story of this Olympics so far,” says IOC press commission head Kevan Gosper. “To know that Pulcrano is willing to sacrifice his reporters to years of torture, death or MSG poisoning in the name of free speech is really quite brave.”
In related news, the Chinese government has sent representatives to San Jose to show their country’s support of an anticipated August council vote in favor of a newspaper box ban.
If the Metro folks were truly committed to journalism and the public good they’d stage their protest in the javelin throw zone.
John:
The Chinese Government was concerned about the rumors that “Little Saigon” banners were going to be placed in the Olympic Square.
Is the Chinese government going to denounce San Jose’s invasion of the Falafel Drive In?
http://www.sanjoseca.gov/planning/annex/documents/BURBANK41.pdf
In addition to the newspaper box ban, the Chinese government supports all antisign ordinances, all government regulation over political reform, all Bush Administration programs that allow spying on citizens, torture of political prisoners, the firing of Justice Dept employees who don’t agree with the party, the hiring of all Justice employees who only agree with the party, all restrictions on the internet, the monitoring of computers at our libraries, and all Reed Reforms.
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