USB Dongle turns Chinese citizens into Olympic reporters

Well, at least as far as getting reasonably unrestricted access to the Internet is concerned it does. It had been widely reported that the Chinese authorities had backtracked on their promises to the IOC that reporters would get free and unrestricted access to the Internet during the games. This, no surprises here, turned into something into a media explosion of fury around the free world. It did not take long, with the opening ceremony looming, for the Chinese to backbacktrack, if you will allow such a concept.