Bloggers and Tweeters to be Censored at Olympics
It seems the Olympic authorities are attempting something of which broadsheet editors, and their learned allies, could only dream: censoring bloggers and tweeters in order to protect their interests. Anyone accredited at the games will be bound by these rules regarding social media:
“…any such postings, blogs or tweets must be in a first-person, diary-type format and should not be in the role of a journalist – i.e. they must not report on competition or comment on the activities of other participants or accredited persons, or disclose any information which is confidential or private in relation to any other person or organisation. A tweet is regarded in this respect as a short blog and the same guidelines are in effect, again, in first-person, diary-type format.
Postings, blogs and tweets should at all times conform to the Olympic spirit and fundamental principles of Olympism as contained in the Olympic Charter, be dignified and in good taste, and not contain vulgar or obscene words or images.”
The IOC clearly learnt a lot in China…
And we have the cheek to lecture others on human rights and freedom?
Money talks.
Twitter ye not!
If they don’t let me thtweet, I’ll thcream and I’ll thcream and I’ll thcream.
Any lorry drivers driving through London during the Olympics, make sure if you’re going to break down that you park in an Olympic only lane. The elitist scum need to be held up.
panem et circenses
We didn’t want this glorified public works expenditure anyway. This will just be an exercise in elitism and bribery. Give the Olympics to France, there’s still time.
‘Postings, blogs and tweets should at all times conform to the Olympic spirit ‘
Money grabbing then?
Nepotism
Abuse of Office.
Expense Fraud.
Bribery.
Cash for Votes.
No wonder the olympics came to Blairistan.
FtO, I agree entirely, I personally would not be bothered if it did not happen, they should have let France have it, it is something that does not usually cover its costs, I hope proper accounts are submitted at the end of the fiasco, anything sold off should go back to the national lottery and just disappear, there are people that are doing nicely out of it though.
“Guidelines for participants
and other accredited persons”
Is hardly censoring the unparticipant or the unaccredited is it?
So not much has ben learnt from the billions of pounds wasted on numerious projects for the millenium. What went into the Dome was a joke but thousends of millions of public money and lottery money was squandered on so called capital projects up and down the county, most are now closed or continue to receive quango funding.
It seems governmet has learn nothing, pretentious quangos still fool or collude with the political class.
The same goes for this. Wander what “Sir” Coe’s wealth is??
Those neither participating nor accredited will not have the information, and those who do will not be allowed to impart it.
Still, at least we retained Abu Quatada.
get and stuffed come to mind
As does piss and off.
I think it’s a dare to do exactly the opposite.
Ridiculous.
Keep squeezing that stone. Censorship ? looks like pretty sensible guidelines to their volunteers to me.
You are wearing the boot stamping on a human face.
yawn – get some perspective in your life will you ?
Get a name anonymong.
Ive got one thanks and no, I don’t have Downs Syndrome either nor do I see why it matters whether I have a name or not. Although if I were to choose one I think I would have to follow your example of using names diametrically opposed to reality and call myself Minimus
What a pompous fucking wanker.
These are guidelines for those who have volunteered to act as unpaid guides for the Olympics. Nobody is trying to censor you. Well done Guido – maybe if you actually read it instead of scanning it from your high horse eh ?
‘Guidelines’ oh that’s all right then.
not going to happen
Excellent. The Olympian spirit at its best.
Spectators can Tweet what they like!?
I have two words for the IOC, “fuck off”. Sorry, but what is supposed to be a festival of sport for all has turned into a farce where the common person can now longer afford to attend.
Then the attempted restriction on active blogging? I am boycotting this turd of a none event!
Rant over.
In short, “Hi, Mum, I’m in London!” is pretty much all you can Tweet.
You’re nicked me little beauty!!
Oh yes.. and everyone must wear clean underwear.
And have cut their toenails.
Hmmmmmm, you don’t get your thrills that way do you
IOC is little more than an obscenity, I struggle and fail to find an adequate excuse for the whole mess, whichever nation whichever decade and whichever political power block it never fails to embraces the worst aspects of that country.
Hear! Hear!
Spot on! 9.5 thousand million pounds for a 17-day sportfest is beyond obscene.
Sorry, for a moment I lost my sense of perspective there – it’s only a shade over 211 days’ of contributions to the EU. Absolute bargain, a mere snip in that case.
No ball !
He surged round the bend opened his legs and showed his class.
In an olympic spirit sort of way.
I remember that – Jarmila Kratochvilova, wasn’t it?
No, a gigantic Cuban.
Yup, that’ll be her.
No, it is South Africa’s Caster Semenya … an interesting runner with the biggest cock in women’s athletics.
Does the Olympic committee still have an official meat and two veg inspector?.
AC, are you volunteering
Looking forward to an excess of Rule 34 Olympic related matters.
These rules seem to be directed as much at the athletes and officials as anyone else. Those people are in a very privileged and central position in respect of what they see and hear all around them.
There are also plenty of the former who wouldn’t be averse to maximising their opportunities for self-aggrandisement and for whipping up their supporters at home and abroad.
I hope to ignore every single minute of it, whatever the medium for the message!
I hope to ignore every single minute of it, whatever the medium for the message!
I think you will be hard put to avoid it, you might even be called unpatriotic by some of the nutters
OD
I agree entirely that it will take a lot of effort to avoid the blanket coverage. Since it’s a worldwide event there isn’t even much point in going abroad.
The real nutters are the blind cheerleaders among us – led by the state broadcaster of course – who have subscribed wholeheartedly to this T Bliar bread-and-circuses stunt which was a horrendously expensive vanity project even before the UK went broke.
We used to condemn the eastern bloc for their full-time paid athletes and now we do just the same, so important is sporting success deemed to be for our international standing – just like the eastern bloc.
Yeah, good luck with that, arseholes.
Do you support the USA’s Stop Online Piracy Act?
Five Hollywood studios, four multinational record labels, and six global publishers versus the rest of the world.
Five rent-seeking Hollywood studios, four rent-seeking multinational record labels, six rent-seeking global publishers and two (or 3) bought houses of government versus the rest of the world.
My only gripe with the term rent-seeking is that it sounds much politer than it really is.
For their desire for rent, these companies will trample over any freedoms or liberties that have taken centuries to evolve, over which the blood of millions has been shed and many more have been unjustly persecuted.
They propose a system from which there is no appеal, no defence and no justice.
Hollywood established itself by ignoring the IPR of everyone else, from european copyrights to the edison patents. Then the studios created a distribution monopoly by allying with the projectionists union and organised crime to break the independent film distribution operations and burn down their customers in the 1920s. Now they want to bring the California hippies who think they run the Interent to heel. No contest.
Unless the Chinese come to the rescue – as they did when it came to building railways through the Rockies.
This does seem to apply to those officially “accredited” so, as I’m not and I want to tweet that Athlete X is on drugs (perm anyone from several thousand – alledgedly) then I will do!
I shall be ignoring the whole sorry event while being forced to pay for it.
Heaven forbid we upset the “bread and circus” brigade.
Too many tweets make an Olympic sized Twat!
On the plus side, the BBC will feel right at home. And as they long ceased to do anything that could be called reporting, big whoop.
Except its staff and especially editors, who are unique, and not bound by any such rules as whatever they do, despite being branded the BBC or littered with its logos and/or links, they can claim need not represent their employer.. the BBC.
Try and prove any relationship and they’ll have an FoI exemption down on you quicker than you can say ‘licence fee payer personal legal money tree’.
The sort of c’unt who wants Olympic ‘accreditation’ is just the sort of c’unt to think this sort of thing is a good idea.
I take it that Guido will not be seeking ‘accreditation’ then.
Guido will in all probably be out of the country in his favourite holiday country FRANCE
Well well well. It the greenhouse gas theory is in danger of becoming extinct.
Turns out it is simply the volume of gas that a planet has and it’s distance from the sun. We could have an atmosphere of pure CO2 and it would not be any warmer.
The Earth is actually cooling as the air escapes into space and massive gaseous venting from the Earth’s has all but stopped.
Cloud cover which reflects solar radiation is controlled by solar activity and is cyclical and we are now at minimum cloud cover. It is set to get colder. There has been no global warming since 1998
By the way the loss of our atmosphere is a very slow process over millions of years but producing CO2 will not have ant real affect on the volume.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/29/unified-theory-of-climate/
Hells bells, that is one mind-blowing document. I can barely understand the first line of the maths but, judging by the hundreds of comments from supportive propeller-heads, it could be a game changer that squashes current AGW theory flat.
Either that or it will be ignored, the latter being more likely.
You can bet your miserable life we will ignore it.
6 billion government-grant-rent-seeking activists. aka climate scientists, have signed a petition saying that CAGW lives and is a threat to mankind. All those activists, sorry, climate scientists, can’t be wrong.
I recall spending the last day of my summer holidays circa 1988 frantically doing an assignment on Acid Rain. I never heard more of it.
We found the assignments a couple of years later in a file in a cupboard, unmarked.
The teacher must have worked out that ikkle panic was a fraudulent pile of shite ahead of time.
Yes, acid rain was a good earner but nothing like global warming. Every politician wants to be seen as saving the planet and they pay us top dollar to find reasons why they need to save it.
I read this a while back.
clearly the bbbc will be la-la-la-ing with their eyes shut and their fingers in their ears.
bbbc spokesman says: nothing to see here, move along now . . .
I predict that inflation will be
5′ 9″ above the rate of growth of a tomato plant in a gallon of Monkey Sick
Wubble !
I said little Ed will be toast by the Summer , last year !
i would now like to revise that to by the end of February
Don’t panic. We have arranged for MI5 to deal with the malcontents. He will still be in charge in 2015 if we have to deal with every other member of the Labour Party (all 127 of them).
DUEMA strikes back!
Really. Who gives a hoot about that biggest waste or time and money the human race has ever invented- the Olympics?
We will all have to Jolly well try and enter into the Spirit of it (under pain of death).
Perfect for a bunch of leftist retard band members like faithless.
The man of system . . . is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board.
Adam Smith
Good stuff though, innit ?
Thanks for the heads-up, Guido. This news is like a javelin through the brain to me.
participants and other accredited persons …must not report on competition or comment on the activities of other participants or accredited persons, or disclose any information which is confidential or private in relation to any other person or organisation.
= we the IOC are pretty corrupt, but there will be no whistleblowing (except if you’re an Official Referee lol).
Participants and other accredited persons are not permitted to promote any brand, product or service within a posting, blog or tweet or otherwise on any social media platforms or on any websites.
Can the IoC say ‘G**gle Adwords’ (or even G**gle)? I think not.
Can I say fuck off to all of it?
I have a degree in sports science & I can say with certaincy as I can’t spell after doing a degree in sports science that a blick man will win the 100metres without an egg & spoon. A blick man will win the 100,00 metres & some under a U.K.flag will pick up a few star stickers for sailing & rowing & shooting.
The opening ceromy will be dreadful & the closing cemetry will be even worse.
Onlt clost several milliens.
A closing cemetery. What a good idea. Bury them all.
On second thoughts, why not have an opening cemetery instead? Saves them from having to do all that running about in circles.
And then it’s off to Buck House for tea and more medals….although I have never been able to work out why Knighthoods and Damehoods should follow (or the many lesser gongs) given that you normally have to purchase these by means of a large bung or three to a political party.
Is there any way we can censor the Olympics (and Paralympics tacked-on-the-end-as-a-token-guesture)?
Please someone block out all fucking coverage of the shitty, sycophantic farce come the summer… and Wimbledon while your at it.
And can someone tell those blubbery oafs to stop throwing a ball around at Twickenham; it is most distracting when we are attempting to make the most of the hospitality.
You mentioned the Olympics!
Quick, show some cool footage of someone with spatulas instead of feet sproinging along in an intentionally hilarious manner.
Apart from “Testicles” Caster Semenya South Africa’s most interesting three-legged race hopeful, Oscar Pistorius will compete in the 200M with his apartheid strap-ons to prove that a South African white man with no legs is still the equal of a black man who comes next to last.
Fantastic!!!!!!!
This makes Berlin ’36 seem fairly free and easy. Discus.
Guido is misunderstanding the far sighted and generous thinking of the IOC in trying to make sure none of Bonkers Johnson’s groping of the competitors leaks out.
IOC – Idiots On Chemicals
Don’t forget to pause/rewind my perfect body in action guys.
“Olympism’ – have you seen a doctor about it?
Introduction of new Olympic sport in time for London Games.
Synchronised Troughing. We expect to do well.
In the Speeding Event we expect Chris Huhne to be awarded the full 100 points.
Yes, the Greeks and Italians are not expected to walk it this year like they usually do.
Sorry guys, the African Nations have got this one wrapped up.
While you’re at it, could you tell the Grauniad to stop fawning over that stroppy little madam Cait Reilly who is trying to prosecute the government because she was made to do a fortnight’s work in Poundland in exchange for her benefits.
She was bloody lucky getting any work. Just look at that sour face and the appalling “I’m edgy, me” haircut.
Of course the Guardianistas are going wild over her – as they do with anyone who protests about their rights. Especially if they have bad hair, angular glasses and a stupid name.
Oh, and she wears a cravat, too. Natch. How ‘rad’. What a clone.
She looks like the sort of sour-faced spastic that high street shops delight in hiring as assistants nowadays – and then the fuckers wonder why everyone shops online instead.
Bollocks, I meant ‘shemagh’, not cravat.
Must ask.
What the hell is a shemagh?
I’ve not been reading any Times magazines of late so am outside the shemagh zone.
Is it Irish for cum-stain?
She was expected to do something with a brush.
Clearly it is the government’s responsibility to provide enough acceptable jobs for spoiled middle class brats whose parents indulge them with 3 years of Museum Studies or Contemporary Dance. The idea that such people should have to work in real jobs, alongside the working class for god’s sake, is offensive.
Next you will be suggesting Polly should have to write actual news stories instead of recycling the same column about how awful the Tory cuts are twice a week for £100k a year.
Oh,she did a real tear jerk today.
How I sobbed for the parents who produced two children with severe autism. So they had a third,who has severe autism. How dumb is that?
Did the medical profession advise them to have another go for a “normal” child.
I don’t believe a word of it. Daily Mail for the Guardinistas.
Ermmm– OK, as a fallback, if nothing better comes along.
She looks like she would be filthy in bed.
I’m very sensitive to these things.
If it upsets you so much why read it?
You need to know how the fuckwits think.
Cassius Clay threw his Olympic Gold Medal into the Mississipi because he saw through the whole charade.
These games are an English idea taking place in the English capital.
I suspect Scottish soldiers will be involved in the security with th Ghurkas.
After the games the debts will be English.
I hope you are not implying Ken Livingstone is English.
Is he even human?
‘not contain vulgar or obscene words’
I presume Tourettes Ed will be banned then ??
Are the spastic Olympics being held at the same time?
Why are we supposed to be excited about this again? In terms of spectator sport excitement, athletics ranks somewhere between darts and bass fishing.
That’s *ordinary* athletics; this is going to be happy-clappy multi-culti commitee-driven athletics, a two-week cringe-fest of focus-group fuckups and disappointment, perhaps with only the occasional synchronised bus-bombing by the muzzie contingent to liven things up.
With drugs.
Only for the athletes though.
Darts iz greeat… hic!
I make about a million every year from darts. Think I can give a shit what you think?
The Frog-Eaters knew what do: insult the IoC just before thee decision between Paris and London . Zut Alors!
Testing.
The Olympics can fuck off.
On a practical note guys: It will be fascinating to see whether this blog still exists come the Opening Ceremony.
Red rag to a bull I would have said.
Yeah, that’ll work.
My guess is that the press already have a few insiders volunteering. Sport on the back pages, photos of athletes bonking each other on the front (there’s a serious amount of bonking in the Olympic Village).
This is the first games where everyone has a video camera in their pocket, capable of transmitting. Open YouTube, film, put it away and no-one will know, and even if they do it will be too late as it will be on the net, and tweeted across the world.
I’m wondering how many spectator tweets we’re going to get about how long it took to get in, the price of official food and drink (and that you can’t take your own in), their reaction to non-official sponsors, queues as various software systems break down and so forth.
It’s going to be the most entertaining thing about the whole 3 weeks.
FIFA, The IOC, The UN. Different peas, same pod.
FIFA, The IOC, THE UN. Different pe*as, same pod.
I don’t get it. What happens if I blog and tweet about it anyway, in any way I like?
I am not on any Olympic committee but at least I can spot the difference between a vat inclusive quote and a non vat inclusive quote.
Having repeatedly looked at the Marvels of Beijing Olympics, I wonder what we have to offer!!. I envisage seeing Boris Johnson standing on the main platform, with the Olympic torch in one hand, and a mike in the other singing God Save The Queen in several languages including Turkish!
In my opinion, we should have left it to France to host these games. The marvels of the Chinese memory is still too vivid in having to exhibit a worthwhile performance with a very limited budget.
Where is the bloody enthusiasm!!
London 2012 will be the best games since the last. Yeah, we overspent slightly. So what?
The people will benefit and the games are soooo exciting. Especially paralympic events.
Excuse me, but WTF is Olympism?
Olympism is banning all product advertising within 500 metres of the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, except for IOC-accredited brands. Despite the fact that half the city centre is included in that radius. Because there’s a woman’s football match on between Hungary and Rumbabwe.
In special circumstances, they will allow normal local advertising to remain in situ. Provided you write to the unmitigated c*nts first and ask them nicely.
Than God I never bothered to seek press accreditation for the Olympics.
Unworkable. Unpolicable. Undemocratic.
The IOC needs as much publicity on their positive elements as they can get and this doesn’t help. So ppl will say the lines are too long or the toilets are blocked – so what?
Ppl will generally blog and tweet about their country and competitors. This is one of the few true events of Social Inclusion and World-wide display of National Pride.
Haven’t the police been given power to enter houses to remove anti-Olympics material. It is meant for things like posters but I wonder if they would use against a blogger? It will be a virtual police state so anything is possible.
As I tweeted on 13th Jan….
For the Olympics, in order to display its proud traditions of freedom, tolerance and democracy, the UK will become a police state.
Can they do it? Legally that is, what about our laws?
This is a rather bold attempt to mug, censure and gag an entire nation and all in it.
This puts the Olympic authorities on par with such beacons of openness and democracy as North Korea, China, Saudi Arabia et al.
Sounds like a campaign of civil disobedience is necessary………………