{"id":195084,"date":"2008-07-30T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/30\/the-ioc-the-first-bastards-up-against-the-wall-when-the-revolution-comes\/"},"modified":"2008-07-30T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T02:49:00","slug":"the-ioc-the-first-bastards-up-against-the-wall-when-the-revolution-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/30\/the-ioc-the-first-bastards-up-against-the-wall-when-the-revolution-comes\/","title":{"rendered":"The IOC: The First Bastards Up Against the Wall When the Revolution Comes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IOC just <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/30\/asia\/olymedia.php\">meekly assented to allowing the Chinese government to filter internet access for the reporters at the games<\/a>, despite promising otherwise just weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>What a bunch of losers.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, <a href=\"http:\/\/shamao.typepad.com\/shamaoer\/2008\/07\/the-same-old-question-why-are-they-so-dumb-httpnewsbbccouk2hiasia-pacific7532338stm-web-curbs-for-olympic-jour.html\">ShaMao&#8217;er<\/a> asks the question that immediately comes to mind, &#8220;The same old question&#8230; why are they so dumb?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meaning the Chinese government.  They <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">had<\/span> to know that this would be found out in short order, and they <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">had<\/span> to know that the consequences of being found out would be worse than anything that a reporter pulled off Amnesty International&#8217;s web site.<\/p>\n<p>My only guess is that is about a need to be in control trumped their need to get good foreign press.<\/p>\n<p>A number of analyses have suggested that the primary audience that is being targeted by the PRC for the Olympics is internal, not external, and that would explain this action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IOC just meekly assented to allowing the Chinese government to filter internet access for the reporters at the games, despite promising otherwise just weeks ago. What a bunch of losers. That being said, ShaMao&#8217;er asks the question that immediately comes to mind, &#8220;The same old question&#8230; why are they so dumb?&#8221; Meaning the Chinese &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1170,971,1129,1064,1057,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-civil-rights","category-journalism","category-media","category-sports","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}