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China Blocks iTunes Over Pro-Tibet Album

Compilation was offered free to Olympians

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 21, 2008 5:10 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Chinese government has blocked access to Apple’s iTunes music store for providing free downloads of a pro-Tibet compilation to Olympic athletes, the Telegraph reports. Users reported a blackout Monday, shortly after the Campaign for Tibet notes that 40 Olympians had downloaded the record. Only the Chinese iTunes store is blocked, however—people in China can access other countries' stores with foreign credit cards.



Security guards force to take away a student as she showed the Tibet flag during Olympic equestrian competition Aug. 9, 2008, in Hong Kong.
Security guards force to take away a student as she showed the Tibet flag during Olympic equestrian competition Aug. 9, 2008, in Hong Kong.   (AP Photo)
News that 40 Olympic athletes had downloaded a pro-Tibet music album appears to have prompted Chinese censors to block access to Apple's iTunes store.
News that 40 Olympic athletes had downloaded a pro-Tibet music album appears to have prompted Chinese censors to block access to Apple's iTunes store.   (AP Photo)
Pro Tibet activists unfurl a Free Tibet banner and Tibetan flags on top of a Beijing Olympics billboard, next to China Central Television headquarters in Beijing on Aug. 15, 2008.
Pro Tibet activists unfurl a "Free Tibet" banner and Tibetan flags on top of a Beijing Olympics billboard, next to China Central Television headquarters in Beijing on Aug. 15, 2008.   (AP Photo)
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