Comments on: IOC approves blogging athletes for Beijing – with strict rules http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/02/18/ioc-approves-blogging-athletes-for-beijing-with-strict-rules/ Online journalism news Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:39:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: David Schlesinger: Reuters ‘multimedia gospel’ and a new media model for the Olympics | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/02/18/ioc-approves-blogging-athletes-for-beijing-with-strict-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-14050 David Schlesinger: Reuters ‘multimedia gospel’ and a new media model for the Olympics | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:56:01 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/02/18/ioc-approves-blogging-athletes-for-beijing-with-strict-rules/#comment-14050 [...] His comments also builds on the debate ahead of last year’s competition over whether athletes should be allowed to blog/re.... [...] [...] His comments also builds on the debate ahead of last year’s competition over whether athletes should be allowed to blog/re…. [...]

]]> By: No Censorship http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/02/18/ioc-approves-blogging-athletes-for-beijing-with-strict-rules/comment-page-1/#comment-4546 No Censorship Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:40:09 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2008/02/18/ioc-approves-blogging-athletes-for-beijing-with-strict-rules/#comment-4546 How dare the International Olympic Committee join with the butchers of Beijing to censor athletes in any way! Do athletes somehow become slaves of the Chinese dictatorship just because they are part of the Propaganda Olympics? No! If you are an athlete, start your own unofficial blog and load it up with videos, photos, interviews with Chinese human rights victims. Take your video camera, digital camera, and a laptop to upload and blog. Show a finger to the censors! China and the IOC won't dare send you home because they'll fear the reactions if they try. Google for ways to get around the "Great firewall" in China so you can update it from your hotel or other location. Action items on China and Tibet, including for athletes: http://www.conservativeusa.org/action.htm How dare the International Olympic Committee join with the butchers of Beijing to censor athletes in any way! Do athletes somehow become slaves of the Chinese dictatorship just because they are part of the Propaganda Olympics?

No! If you are an athlete, start your own unofficial blog and load it up with videos, photos, interviews with Chinese human rights victims. Take your video camera, digital camera, and a laptop to upload and blog. Show a finger to the censors! China and the IOC won’t dare send you home because they’ll fear the reactions if they try. Google for ways to get around the “Great firewall” in China so you can update it from your hotel or other location.

Action items on China and Tibet, including for athletes:
http://www.conservativeusa.org/action.htm

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