Businesses To Be Censored on Use of Olympics

pitpe writes "The BBC reports that the proposed London 2012 Olympics Bill bans the use of words related to the Olympics by non-sponsors, including 'Olympic', '2012', 'gold', 'summer' and 'games', amongst others. The bill is aimed at ensuring corporate sponsors, who have provided £790m of the IOC's £2.25bn marketing revenue over the last four years, will not be deterred by 'ambush marketing' where rivals to the official sponsors try to take advantage, but businesses warn it could make it technically illegal for pubs to use chalkboards to flag up coverage of the Games." From the article: "The London 2012 website has already posted a warning listing a string of Olympic-related words and images that are off limits to all but official sponsors. And advertisers' representatives have criticised the new Olympics bill because they believe it will make it almost impossible for most companies to even acknowledge that the Games are happening without getting into trouble. "

Comments

Ahh, Europe!

[AstroDrabb]

You gotta love it. No matter how much the Europeans cry about America, they are becoming more and _more_ like us EVERY DAY! Heck, even this "bill/law" would be too much for us in the USA.

As I read TFA, I cannot help but think you Europeans have surpassed the USA in 'slim-ness'. You Europeans won't even be able to use the words "summer", "gold" or "games"! Damn! That is pretty bad! So umm, how exactly will you Europeans describe the period of the year where it is warmer and the Earth is farther from the Sun? Did you get a new code-word to use until after 2012? What about the word "games"? What will European kids call what they play? What will all the home-boyz call those metal teeth they have if they can't say gold? Will "bling" still be in style in 2010 + 2?

Re:Another example

[Vo0k]

Take these fuckin islander morons, we don't want them.
--true (continental) european.