Videoblogger Deported From China for Filming Tiananmen Square Protest

Many bloggers were very impressed with Lhadon’s efforts in Beijing last year, and wanted to support our work. They came to Beijing to support the Tibet issue, but also to support Chinese bloggers and free speech.

Now American videoblogger noneck has been deported from China for posting videos of SFT protests in Beijing. Here is one of the videos that the Chinese government found so offensive as to deport him for:

While he wasn’t “embedded” with SFT, he was always in the loop if a protest in progress, and since most of our protests were in central areas, it was easy for him to get there quick.

Our relationship with him and other bloggers is essentially the same as our relationship with professional journalists, and in fact, we consider citizen journalists such as noneck, to be just as legitimate and well suited as allies in our “this just happened” online media strategy

noneck is a supporter of SFT, but also a personal friend of Nathan Dorjee, SFT’s Digital Operations Director.

You can watch more of noneck’s video blog coverage on Qik and read his Twitter feed for his great microblogging during his time in China.

BlogSchmog has a great write-up of noneck’s deportation and what he’s been doing while in Beijing.