What's this? The communists "restricting" freedom?

BEIJING (AP) - China appears to be rolling back some press freedoms, barring foreign journalists from working near a popular Shanghai park and along a major Beijing shopping street after calls for weekly protests in those spots appeared online.

I have news for you ... a "freedom" isn't a "freedom" if it can be "rolled back" by any individual or group.  It is only a privilege they ALLOW and revoke at their whim.

The new restrictions put the popular leisure spots on a par with Tibet as out-of-bounds areas where foreign reporters need special permission to work, and come after journalists were attacked and harassed while working in the areas over the weekend.

Bob Dietz, the Asia coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists, said the treatment of journalists in Beijing on Sunday was "the worst aggression against the foreign press we've seen since the Olympics in 2008."

"Such a heavy-handed response discredits the ruling Chinese Communist Party and highlights their fear of popular opposition," Dietz said in a statement. More here:

Ha ha, that's a good one.  He says it "discredits" the communist party ... as if the communist party ever had any "credit."  Hey, relax, asshat.  The government is only doing this to be "fair."  And isn't it always best for the government to decide what is fair and what is unfair?  Yes, they should make up a doctrine to control the media ... they could call it "The Fairness Doctrine" or "Localization" ... you know ... just catch up with the Democratics in the United States.