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Wired on Defeating the Olympics Censorship

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the future-of-internet-broadcasting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As discussed on Slashdot recently, Internet footage of Olympics events are being censored for US citizens. Wired.com is covering the issue in a recent story, discussing ways of defeating these measures. Duane Wessels, developer of the Squid caching proxy, and Len Sassaman, Mixmaster anonymity software author, are interviewed. Are they correct? Is geolocation content censorship impossible?"

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  1. Hide the content by tezza · · Score: 3, Funny
    Just make sure there is an American English version and an English English title.

    OlympicsInColor.com would be for the American viewers and OlympicsInColour.co.uk would be the unfettered site. Simple, cheap, well, perhaps not effective in any way, but worth a shot.

    Security thorugh obscurity is always the best, no matter what those GnuPG people tell you. After all the biggest software company in the world is a strong advocate of this.

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  2. The Opening Ceremony by netsharc · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was watching the Opening Ceremony, it was a great show, until they started this a tribute to Eros, the god of Love, with a pair playing in the water, and they kissed! Oh my Zeus, they kissed each other, won't someone think of the children, we need a special senate session, call the FCC and tell them to bomb Greece!!! This shameless moral corruption must not go unpunished!

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  3. I didn't even know it was on! by p51d007 · · Score: 2, Funny

    LOL........I didn't even know the olympics had started, until I read something about it on the web. I quit watching ABC,CBS,NBC,CNN,PBS years ago.

  4. Re:Olympics is a facist event by t_allardyce · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ahhh, im starting to see the light now. So the absolute only point to all sports is for advertisers to make money out of people that are sucked in?

    Hmmmm... evil thoughts.. i wonder if the same could work for online games? Gandalf, do you wish to buy a +10 coke? i mean cloak...

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  5. Re:No thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure i do! Its when someone tells everyone your latest widescreen is actually gay.

  6. Re:It's not censorship, it's licensing by whorfin · · Score: 3, Funny

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
    Fascism

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  7. Old Skool Olympics by arakon · · Score: 1, Funny

    People still watch the olympics?

    It bores me out of my mind. OOooo look he can run fast...

    Then I came up with a great idea. Make the Olympics old Skool, like the real greeks used to. Where people were brutal and we could have sports like "LIve-Angry-Lion Tossing" and get rid of "sports" (using the term lightly) like ice skating.

    Oh yeah and get rid of ALL safety equipment. Let's see some pain.

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  8. Re:American movie depictions of history? by zangdesign · · Score: 2, Funny

    But then the producers and directors of the movie should *explicitely* state that the movie is *utterly* for entertainment purposes only, *completely* fictional, has no historical basis, and that *no* part of the film should be taken as truth.

    Ummm. Yeah. I'll get back to you on that when Quixotic Campaign to Labelize Everything According to It's True Nature has it's first meeting. Here on Planet Reality, we just assume that movies are for entertainment and if someone doesn't understand that, well, they should have paid more attention in school.

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