Comments on Today in the Olympics

I miss those days. Tug of War as an olympic sport and ring toss using garlands of grape leaves.

Every time I visit China, just for fun I try to visit Amnesty's website and get an "Error 404 - Page Not Found".

Trying to use Wikipedia gives the same result (serves me right, I suppose).

However, I was able to read Slog without any censorship. Go figure.

Well, cause you know the journalists back in the other countries, it's not like they can get to those websites and add information to stories, right China? I mean by blocking the journalists while in China you are definitely preventing any negative information getting into the world press, right? And its not like the act of blocking journalists from information would be perceived in any way as negative, right?

fuck, they're going to stamp their little bound feet the first time Jesse Owens wins a medal!

The funniest things to watch are the "journalists" from Hong Kong getting beat up by the Chinese police as they learn that they too are subject to the pro-Bush Nanny State of Red China.

N00bz.

All your freedom are belong to Beijing.

If it's a choice between introducing golf or bringing back tug-o-war, I say bring back tug-o-war. National pride at it's finest!

China censors the internet? AM TEH SURPRIZED.

That just makes me miss the Battle of the Network Stars. Robert Conrad, *sigh*.

Glenn Greenwald did a good piece on this, titled:

"Those privacy-hating Chinese communist tyrants"

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/30/china/index.html

Who get to pick out who is inspected?