Posted on 11/11/2013 8:21:10 PM PST by mykroar
Edited on 11/11/2013 9:08:54 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The 2014 Olympics might feel more like 1914.
Journalists attending the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia will be forbidden from using everyday technology to take pictures and share information -- the mobile phones and tablets that have woven themselves into the fabric of daily life, the Olympics committee said.
“Journalists using mobile phones to film athletes or spectators will be considered a serious violation and will result in cancellation of accreditation,” Vasily Konov, head of the state-run R-Sport news agency, which controls accreditation at February’s games, told a seminar for sports journalists.
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I’m not a fantic about these sorts of things, but that is really going to clamp down what does or doesn’t get out from the Olympics.
I actually like the idea that anyone can report what they’re seeing in real time. It’s very cool for events like this.
Wouldn't it be great if they held a sporting event with all of these assinine restrictions and no audience showed up?
Good.
What are they afraid of? Even China didn’t have these restrictions.
No one will go. Everyone’s addiction is too strong. (:
Yeah, good luck with that.
Don’t know precisely. But the two obvious menaces to the Olympics are Moslem terrorists, and American journalists who want the whole narrative to be homosexuality.
American journalists want to make Socchi into a remake of the Nazi 1936 Olympics, facing down an “evil dictator”. Only they are trying to save wholesome down home American homosexuality from Christian Russia.
Not sure how this works into their risk matrix, but anyway those are the threats I see in Socchi that need controlling.
It’s one way to stifle flash-mob faggot attacks.
The Russian law is about promoting homosexuals to minors. Hollyweird is deceptive in their descriptions of the “controversy”.
“The actions of consenting ADULTS in PRIVATE” was a lie.
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