• china
• Olympics

A great example of China's "filtering" (or "copy editing") of information.

Link via Spinuzzi.

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• Olympics
• protest

Inspired by the discussion about to-protest or not-to-protest the NCA hotel, and reflecting on the social movement legacies (or an ambiguous legacy, as Zizek calls it) of 1968, I found this article by David Zirin, one of my favorites, about the politics of protest of the Olympics "shut up and play" athlete censorship policy worth a mention:

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• gender trouble
• Olympics

So my dearest buddy and colleague, John McKenzie, sent me this link tonight, and I cannot get over it:

"We're familiar with drug testing for athletes, but officials at the Beijing Olympics will be taking things one stage further and examining competitors whose sex is in doubt...Read the story HERE."

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