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Olympians Banned From Blogging
nodwick writes "CNN reports that in a bid to protect its lucrative media contracts, the IOC is barring competitors, coaches, and support personnel from writing firsthand accounts of their Olympic experience, on the web or in print, for the duration of the Games. Nor are they allowed to ever post photographs or movies that they've taken, including media of themselves, even after the Games are finished. They've threatened to disqualify anyone that violates their restrictions and sue them for monetary damages. Looks like an effort to clamp down on grassroots, word-of-mouth publicity for the Olympics -- good thing they're not having any problems selling tickets anyways, eh?"
"Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily been disabled. You can still login to post. However, if bad posting continues from your IP or Subnet that privilege could be revoked as well. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner or login and improve your posting . If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email moderation@slashdot.org with your MD5'd IPID and SubnetID, which are "2dd94a7fecc11ec15632a181e7c81c42" and "de68e944a6c7ce4952fdb720d8a11593" and (optionally, but preferably) your IP number "127.0.0.1" and your username "cowboyneal"."
md5s, Username, and IP have been altered.Check his posting history
Making fun of decapitated Americans is beyond pathetic
I think there's a problem with the banning system. I had an IP banned a few weeks ago too, and haven't really done anything wrong.
Any other people have problems with spurious bans?
-Z
Go away you worthless troll
rkz: GNAA ANNOUNCES NEW NICK BERG T-SHIRT This is what slashtroll "rkz" thinks is funny. Check it out.
Check his history, this guy must really hate other people
I am well aware that my user name was posted, and that the IPs are recorded, all 3 were jokes, 127.0.0.1, cowboyneal, "wtf" | md5sum, "www.anit-slash.org" | md5sum.
In defense this may be overrated, troll, flamebait, maybe, but it's not wholely offtopic... /."
/. I do feel that if they are going to ban me I should at least deserve it (though I'm most likely an innocent bystander on my dynamic IP, as most (though not admittedly not all) of my posts are good) This post is an attempt to rectify the situation, so NOW I'm beginning in to deserve it... go GNAA, go anti-slash, go /.trolls...
"Olympians Banned From Blogging"
"Me banned from posting annonymously on
Not THAT different, both organizations have the right to do so... whether it is morally right or wrong, that depends on one's perspective.
While I don't feel like reporting it to
I did. Luckily it didn't affect my dial-up account so I can post this AC, I think. ;-)
I could just use a proxy but still! This didn't happen till that md5 article so I just figured /. got hacked, a password got discovered, or somebody dropped the ball, (because of the md5 being part of it) but then I could post, and now I can't, oh well, I suppose I have better things to do than troll /.
see ya
I'll say. You can only find stuff like this on the internet. (By the way, the sample material doesn't really show what she's capable of)
It happens in every country
Winter 2010: With Glowing Hearts
"They don't even want people directing traffic to their site."
IMO, DNS servers should whole-heartedly support this policy by not resolving the URL unless the requestor has provided, in writing, documentation that the link being followed is valid.