You Tube to provide Olympic coverage

Via Huffington Post

Great news that YOU Tube is to provide coverage of the Olympics to countries across Africa,the Middle East and Asia which have not got an exclusive online digital providers

The content can be found on www.youtube.com/beijing2008

If you are in the UK where obviously the Beeb have got that coverage then you will find the channel blocked

Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), a wholly owned subsidiary of the IOC, will produce regularly updated Olympic content. The package will include highlights, news and daily clips of the competitions, available throughout the 17-day period of the Games.

Nine press freedoms before the Olympics

With one hundred days togo,Reporters without frontiers has issued today 9 press freedom demands as the countdown to the Olympics begins

In full

1. Release all journalists and Internet users detained in China for exercising their right to information.

2. Allow the foreign press freedom of movement, including in Tibet and Xinjiang, and freedom to interview whomever they wish, both until and beyond October 2008.

3. Disband the Publicity Department (the former Propaganda Department), which exercises daily control over content in the Chinese press.

4. End the jamming of foreign radio stations.

5. End the blocking of thousands of news and information websites based abroad.

6. Suspend the "11 Commandments of the Internet," which lead to content censorship and self-censorship on websites.

7. End the blacklisting of journalists and human rights activists, which prevents them from visiting China.

8. Lift the ban on Chinese media using foreign news agency video footage and news reports without permission.

9. Legalize independent organisations of journalists and human rights activists.