Censorship in action

http://www.nbcolympics.com/index.html is a website with video clips from the
Olympics. When I try to view any of the clips, I get a message over the
screen saying that 'NBC Olympic Video clips are not allowed to be viewed in
your country."

Interesting. I'm sort of curious if this post even gets to you guys. :-)

--riverman

"riverman" wrote in message ...
http://www.nbcolympics.com/index.html is a website with video clips from
the Olympics. When I try to view any of the clips, I get a message over
the screen saying that 'NBC Olympic Video clips are not allowed to be
viewed in your country."

Interesting. I'm sort of curious if this post even gets to you guys. :-)

The post seems to have come through just fine.

As far as the video goes on my PC, there seems to be a security upgrade
(from Microsoft) & licenseacquisition required (from nbcolympics) before
actually getting to the video. It's probably one of these steps that's
crashing your attempt rather than censorship of the content; but who knows.

Joe F.

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
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riverman wrote:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/index.html is a website with video clips from
the Olympics. When I try to view any of the clips, I get a message over
the screen saying that 'NBC Olympic Video clips are not allowed to be
viewed in your country."

Interesting. I'm sort of curious if this post even gets to you guys. :-)

This has been in the news here in the states lately. Both
Yahoo and Google have been hauled before a congressional
committee and yelled at.

There was a piece on NPR the other day where one guy in
the states and one guy in China were on the phone and
trying to do identical searches. I wonder if you can
listen to this ?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5218083



Yep, that came through. Very interesting (and impressive that you had that
link). I opened the same websites as the NPR guy, and got the same hits as
he did, not as the guy in Bejing. Later in the broadcast, he mentioned that
China censors sites in Chinese (or Cantonese, I imagine) originating from
Hong Kong, so maybe there isn't any censorship here in HK, and my inability
to open that NBC link was as Joe F mentioned.

Interesting thing: we cannot get the Olympics here. Only one channel carries
ANY coverage, and thats a local station, in Chinese, and only for a few
hours each day.

--riverman

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:12:01 +0800, "riverman"
wrote:


"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
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riverman wrote:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/index.html is a website with video clips from
the Olympics. When I try to view any of the clips, I get a message over
the screen saying that 'NBC Olympic Video clips are not allowed to be
viewed in your country."

Interesting. I'm sort of curious if this post even gets to you guys. :-)

This has been in the news here in the states lately. Both
Yahoo and Google have been hauled before a congressional
committee and yelled at.

There was a piece on NPR the other day where one guy in
the states and one guy in China were on the phone and
trying to do identical searches. I wonder if you can
listen to this ?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5218083



Yep, that came through. Very interesting (and impressive that you had that
link). I opened the same websites as the NPR guy, and got the same hits as
he did, not as the guy in Bejing. Later in the broadcast, he mentioned that
China censors sites in Chinese (or Cantonese, I imagine) originating from
Hong Kong, so maybe there isn't any censorship here in HK, and my inability
to open that NBC link was as Joe F mentioned.

Interesting thing: we cannot get the Olympics here. Only one channel carries
ANY coverage, and thats a local station, in Chinese, and only for a few
hours each day.

--riverman


Doesn't work in Canada either -- maybe NBC doesn't want to reveal to
the rest of the world what it's telling Americans about their team's
Olympic performance. ))

Peter

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"Peter Charles" wrote in message
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On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:12:01 +0800, "riverman"
wrote:

Doesn't work in Canada either -- maybe NBC doesn't want to reveal to
the rest of the world what it's telling Americans about their team's
Olympic performance. ))

Maybe NBC doesn't want Canadians to know the US is leading Canada in the
medal totals. ))

BTW-how about that Canadian Hockey team.?

Wayne
Who, before this was posted was wishing the Winter Olympics would go away.
And take american idol with it.

Peter Charles wrote:
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:08:01 -0500, "Wayne Knight"
wrote:

Maybe NBC doesn't want Canadians to know the US is leading Canada in the
medal totals. ))


We were ahead for a while and after the hockey finals, we'll probably
be ahead again.


In actual fact, Canada is quite far ahead of the US in medal earnings.

Consider that the population of the US is 295,734,134 and they have 13
medals. On a per capita basis, this gives them = 0.0000000440 medals
per person.

Canada has a population = 32,805,041 people and we have 11 medals. On a
per capita basis, that gives us 0.0000003353 medals per person.

The ratio of the number of medals per person indicates that Canada has
won 7.627991531 times as many medals per person as the US, on a per
capita basis.

Of course, this may be one of those times when it is best not to think
about things too much.

Tim Lysyk

Wayne Knight wrote:

Maybe NBC doesn't want Canadians to know the US is leading Canada in the
medal totals. ))

BTW-how about that Canadian Hockey team.?

Wayne
Who, before this was posted was wishing the Winter Olympics would go away.


Why is that? How do they "bother" you enough that you want them to go
away? It's not like there aren't a ****load of other stations to
choose from or other things to do.

Personally, I've been enjoying the games.

Willi

"Tim Lysyk" wrote in message
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In actual fact, Canada is quite far ahead of the US in medal earnings.

Consider that the population of the US is 295,734,134 and they have 13
medals. On a per capita basis, this gives them = 0.0000000440 medals per
person.


Consider that most of the American people live in climates where snow is
something they watch on the weather channel whereas Canadians, before global
warming anyway, learned to ski almost as soon as they learned to walk
otherwise they'd be stuck inside 9 months of the year.

"Willi" wrote in message
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Why is that? How do they "bother" you enough that you want them to go
away?

Well one, I grew up in the south. Winter sports is something I saw for an
hour on Wide World of Sports. I tried skiing and ice skating once. Emphasis
on once.

Two-I think a Winter "Olympics" is kind of stupid. It ain't like the greeks
did bobsledding in the nude or anything?

Three-I blame living in Atlanta in 1996 for an extreme distaste for all
things 'Olympics'. They've not been for amateurs in a generation and like
college football and baseball, there's a ****load of money enriching very
few while others willingly allow themselves to be financially soaked.

Lastly, I hold the example of the first gold medal winning african american.
There was a relay race before that he pulled out of before the solo race,
probably costing the US team a gold. Team my ass, this guys gonna get some
quick cash and his likeness on Wheaties before he fades out of our
collective thoughts. His ass should have been given a one way coach ticket
back to the states.

It's not like there aren't a ****load of other stations to
choose from or other things to do.

Other than the news and the rare documentary, the only thing TV does for me
is keep my wife occupied so I can play in the shop or read in peace.

Personally, I've been enjoying the games.

Good for you. I'm sure NBC wishes there were more folks like you and less
folks like me.

Wayne Knight wrote:
...
Three-I blame living in Atlanta in 1996 for an extreme distaste for all
things 'Olympics'. ...

The feeling is mutual. The Olympics has an extreme distaste for
all things "Atlanta." Somewhere in Atlanta a bus full of German
journalists driven by a totally lost two-toothed redneck is
still circling the interstate.

Lastly, I hold the example of the first gold medal winning african american.
There was a relay race before that he pulled out of before the solo race,
probably costing the US team a gold. Team my ass, this guys gonna get some
quick cash and his likeness on Wheaties before he fades out of our
collective thoughts. His ass should have been given a one way coach ticket
back to the states.

Now that's just ignorant. Speedskating is an individual sport
and Shani Davis was right to blow off some made up "team" ****.
This is the first time in the history of Olympic speedskating
that a "team" event was on the venue and the American Federation
(which has screwed Davis so bad over the years he trains in
Canada and doesn't take their money) recruited him at the last
second.

--
Ken Fortenberry