Wired on Defeating the Olympics Censorship

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?"

Comments

Re:It's not censorship, it's licensing

[Anonymous Coward]

censorship, a la China, North Korea, Fox News

This is pure flamebait in an otherwise insightful comment. Oh, moderators, what to do.

Dear smug self-important Canadian Prick,

[Anonymous Coward]

We do not care what America Jr. watches, or how much you seethe at night over how much better we are than you in every way (other than providing things poorly, but for free, like television broadcasts and health care). Your post is clearly deserving to wind up at -1, but with all the other anti-American dickheads about with too many moderation points and free time, it will probably rise to +5 insightful.

Enjoy the one area where people actually give a shit about what Canadians have to say, Slashdot. Send more commedians down, and STFU.

Love,
America

BBC NOT impartial

[Anonymous Coward]

They have to pander to the gov't more than other channels as ultimately the gov controls the tax fee we brits have to pay.

Re:It's not censorship, it's licensing

[Anonymous Coward]

Ignore the OP. America bashing is the new favorite hobby in the EU because they have nothing else to do. It's jealously, plain and simple. We do what the fuck we want, when we want, and they can't stand it.

I'm not a Bush fan, but ten cheers for starting to bring troops home from Europe.

The EU will be an Islamofacist regime within 10 or 20 years anyway. I can't wait. I will laugh and laugh and laugh.

Flipper Feet

[Rick Richardson]

I stopped watching the games when it became clear that USA and Aussie swimmers were being bred for long torsos, short legs, and flipper feet in order to get around the restrictions on drug doping. This is but one example of the rampant genetic manipulation and experimentation going on now in sports. The Olympics has become a real freak show.

Prohibition never works.

Re:It's not censored, we pay for the BBC

[gopherd00d]

> We the british public fund the BBC through our licence fee, it is because of this fee that we
> have impartial, and world wide recognised excelelnt broadcasts from the BBC.

There is no such thing as an impartial broadcast. No human or group of humans is capable of being truly impartial, unbiased, etc. Everybody has an agenda. It is the way of things. I'm sick of high-and-mighty Europeans telling us how corrupt we are in America. You're all either hypocrites or even more naive than most Americans.

And FYI, NBC's prime time coverage is tape-delayed because "prime time" here is the middle of the night in Athens... I'm sure were missing whole lot of fascinating olympic action at 3 am! There are plenty of live events broadcast on NBC's cable networks between 4 am and noon our time.

Re:Much Ado Over ...

[black mariah]

Maybe, you know, people want to see and hear about people that they can fucking UNDERSTAND and have HEARD OF BEFORE. Check the Spanish language coverage. Your main coverage is of Spanish, Puerto Rican, and Mexican competitors. Those people are known better in Spanish speaking countries than most American competitors are, BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE THEY ARE FROM. The Olympics are ALL ABOUT making your country look like the best, and if you haven't learned this in the thousands of years the Olympics have existed, you're a fucking idiot.

A quick Google search turns up no mention of any kind of replica Parthenon in Georgia. There is one in Nashville, however. What this means is that you're either mistaken or a fucking moron, and I'd bet the latter.