'Sufficient access'.

Surprise, surprise ... China has reneged on its promise to provide 'complete media freedom' to international media during the Olympics:

Yesterday in Beijing, Age journalists were unable to access so-called "sensitive sites" on human rights, Tibet and the Falun Gong. But sites such as the New York Times, the BBC Chinese site, Radio Free Asia, al-Jazeera and Taiwanese papers were blocked. Even google.com was occasionally blocked.

The blocking was confirmed by Beijing Organising Committee spokesman Sun Weide.

"Our promise was that journalists would be able to use the internet for their work during the Olympic Games," said Mr Sun. "So we have given them sufficient access to do that." The censorship and the monitoring of visitors' web usage breaks promises for complete media freedom made by Chinese authorities when they won the Games in 2001 and repeated ever since.

The IOC, which gifted China this Weapon of Mass Propaganda, apologized for the misunderstanding.