Comments on: Beijing, IOC welcome media to the Censorship Games

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Obama: Know where it’s really great to do business?

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:24:44 +0000

[...] thinks the world would love to do business maintains itself through brutal oppression. China blocked access to the Internet for international journalists despite promising to allow full access to reporters for the Games. [...]

By: SilverStar830

SilverStar830 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:27:52 +0000

As much as I hate to say it, anyone who couldn’t see this coming 7 years ago when they selected China to host the Olympics in 2008 must have been H.U.A.

Their dismal Human Rights record and ongoing violations of civil rights wasn’t enough of a tell at the get-go?

As much as I hate to do it, I’m boycotting the Olympics this year. We won’t watch it in this house. Not one minute. There will be no Olympics Memorabilia/Collectibles purchased. I already avoid, to the best of my ability, the purchase of goods imported from or made in China anyway… but it’s damn hard to. Practically everything sold in America has the stench of China’s Communism and Human Rights atrocity’s attached to it.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:22:14 +0000

I wont watch a single minute of the Chicomlympics, from opening to closing.

By: DAT60A3

DAT60A3 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:21:44 +0000

I stopped caring about the Olympics ever since they dropped the ban on professional atheletes. It was and always should be for amature atheletes only! Just because the Soviets and their allies would bend the rules and slide in professionals, didn’t mean that we had to compromise our standards and ethics. Go back to amatures only or just drop the games totally.

By: rmgraha

rmgraha — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:20:08 +0000

Holding the olympics in a country run by an oppressive government, complete with censorship is totally stupid. Would the IOC condone holding the olympics in Nazi Germany?
/historical irony

By: cthulhu

cthulhu — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:15:16 +0000

As to the IOC, it is just the UN for athletes.

highhopes on August 1, 2008 at 9:20 AM

Ooooh, that’s gotta leave a mark!

By: mojo

mojo — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:40:38 +0000

Trash the Chinese gov, guys. Start filing story after story on how they censor the net. Keep it coming, get yourself tossed out if you can.

By: TimothyJ

TimothyJ — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:10:41 +0000

My wife and I have a small informal poll going: How many people do you think will be arrested as spies before the games are over? I am at 8. She says 2.

By: dalec

dalec — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:44:58 +0000

Who’s bright idea was it to have the games in China in the first place. WHAT AN IDIOT!!!!!!

By: Techie

Techie — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:14:44 +0000

But the Atlanta games were run by some backwater hicks, right IOC?

You can have your ChiComm lovefest. I’m not watching a minute of this year’s games.

By: Grafted

Grafted — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:56:01 +0000

I’d be a little wary if I were an Olympic athlete headed to China.

By: Verbal Abuse

Verbal Abuse — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:41:48 +0000

These Olympics have the dubious destinction of being the most disgraceful games since 1936. Congrats to the IOC.

By: hoosiermama

hoosiermama — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:39:02 +0000

On this note, from one of my favorite bloggers:

“The asparagus here is definitely amazing.”

By: fleiter

fleiter — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:34:23 +0000

You can bet there will be no protests at the games. Why do you think they have all those machine gun toting special forces units stationed all over the city. Hint: It has nothing to do with preventing terrorist attacks.

By: DaveC

DaveC — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:01:02 +0000

At the closing cerimonies, the head of the IOC will say,

I was told to say that is was the best Games in all of Olympic History, ever!

By: pilamaye

pilamaye — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:59:15 +0000

If there was so much as a shred of decency in the IOC, they would immediately announce that due to China breaking its agreement, that the Games are officially cancelled and that China is now banned from any future Olympic competitions.

I mean, what is China going to do, throw a hissy fit at the UN? Let ‘em!

By: Darvin Dowdy

Darvin Dowdy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:53:03 +0000

This is a public relations blunder for the Chinese gov’t. This dumb move coupled together w/the filthy polluted air. There must be an element within the Chinese leadership that will recognize the negative effects of this and will push more towards real solutions. They have to know that they can not hide these shortfalls. Like sweeping dirt under the rug to hide it. Pandora’s box has been opened in China. Folks there have seen the advantages and prosperity brought on by freedom. And they want it. I don’t see how the Chinese gov’t thinks they can continue to suppress that.
I wonder how we can help the Chinese continue to transition towards freedom. What could we do? How can we encourage them? DD

By: CliffHanger

CliffHanger — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:50:40 +0000

Let’s open up the Chineses internet get our best hackers on this now…

By: ErikTheRed

ErikTheRed — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:38:22 +0000

On a technical level, BFD. All news organizations would presumable use VPN (virtual private networking) technology to create secure links back to their headquarters. China’s firewall has no idea what traffic is going over a VPN connection – they can surf whatever they want over it.

By: jgapinoy

jgapinoy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:36:30 +0000

Why does the IOC get tons of scorn, but Google gets a pass? At least the IOC didn’t help the Chi-Coms oppress & censor.

By: jgapinoy

jgapinoy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:34:16 +0000

The IOC has revealed itself as a collection of cowards and toadies. Shame on them — and shame on the media outlets that don’t pack up and leave now

…& shame on ~~Obamarxist~~ Obamaoist for buying huge chunks of Olympic advertising time.

By: TheSitRep

TheSitRep — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:34:14 +0000

I say boycott CHINA in toto!

By: Cindy Munford

Cindy Munford — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:32:51 +0000

Don’t you think that this just what needed to happen? People have been saying all these things for years but have been ignored now they will actually go over and live with it. That being said, I am still glad the Olympics are in China because until people are faced with and inconvienced with what is going on in that country they just blame the U.S.. I am waiting breathlessly to hear about the polution and the KEOTO (? is that right) Treaty.

By: whitetop

whitetop — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:30:53 +0000

“Ouch! What’s this little plastic thing with the tiny antenna sewn into the special souvenir jockstrap they issued me?”

By: Kafir

Kafir — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:30:05 +0000

That’s right, IOC, you go on telling Iraq how saddened you are by their government “interference” in sports and how you’re going to bar them from the games for doing so.