How do the IOC have the right to make a takedown request on a video of a protest out side a Chinese Consulate in the US? I mean a little explanation would be great here....

Even Paris doesn't know why

"Free publicity for protest video"

Call me when you post something interesting.

..says John Oates, reaching for his slippers, pipe and 12" recording of Barbra Streisand Does the Classics...

Ok, cheers for that, I guess it makes some sort of sense to someone...

china is an empire, not a country:

http://www.tibet.net/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_people

the chinese people are not free, let alone these two groups living under the "communist" jackboot.

>:|

We in the Cult of the Sanctity of the Ringpieces wholeheartedly and warmly embrace the entirely democratic Inturnashnul Ooopslympics Commisariat and their robust defence of their rings

What an arse-clenchingly ridculous reason for suppression of expression

"even the Dalai Lama doesn't want a free Tibet, but instead a more autonomous Tibet. Only radicals and Westerners talk about a free Tibet."

Actually, yes he does. He simply knows that the Chinese politbureau would never allow it, so he's trying to get a compromise for his people, because it's better than nothing.

Only morons and posters for the Chinese government would think otherwise.

You really think the Dalai Lama doesn't want a free Tibet? That given a choice between a free Tibet and an autonomous Tibet he'd chose the latter? It's called diplomacy. China will never enter negotiations with someone who wants a free Tibet, an autonomous Tibet is better than no concessions from the Chinese at all.

surely china would want the advertising seeing as all the "free tibet" t-shirts are made in china?

Just remember the $50 per month - less living quarters and food charges - sweatshop workers, many under 15 years old, that make most ALL Apple products next time you plug in your iPud, admire your flaky iPhone and try or pray your MacBook boots up.

AppleTards = LibTard Hypocrites.

Don't be a prat webster - do you seriously think Dell/HP/any other major pc manufacturer's factories are any different? You sound like a 4-year-old refusing to eat his greens. No-one cares about your irrational hatred, you're worse than the chinese, and they've been brainwashed by a corrupt totalitarian state. Open your eyes, you fool, and realise that all software (and all hardware) sucks, apple sucks no more than any other, and you sound like a lunatic every time you draw (literary) breath and post another predictable, biased, no-paris-angle rant.

"Witnessing recent events in Georgia, I'm just saddened that Russia and China still exist in their present form - instead of being non-nuclear nations under joint U.S. and British occupation, to be followed by a lengthy period of colonial tutelage."

WOT!? Like Burma & Uganda, for example? That sure showed them!

Right on, brother, but what about Cornwall? What about Cornwall!?!?

evil billg because I'm sure he's at fault here as well, bastard.

>Death to the imperialistic English! Free Wales!

Please DO free the rest of the UK from the sullen/sodden lump of rock known as Wales. Hell, even their prince doesnt live there !!

Bloody whingeing Celts, never stopped moaning since the Romans arrived and made them take baths and stop p*ssing in the streets .

The reason there aint no dragon there is obvious, the rest of the UK see Wales as one of thoses elderly aunt type of characters. You know the one, smells a little odd and says embarassing things to your friends. The one you would rather be elsewhere.

FREE WALES

It's more that the Irish are too drunk to draw dragons on flags, the Scots are too tightfisted to change theirs and the English... well, the English just don't care about anywhere outside London.

And for your information, Wales (and the rest of the UK) probably has some of the best street-pissing weather in the world, what with all the rain to wash it away with and all.

Their prince doesn't live there because he doesn't like being away from his mummy. The GM-and-computer-games hating eejit...

"china is an empire, not a country:"

The same can be said for the U.S.A.

Do you have similar issues with the rank self interest and rabid imperialism that emanates from Washington DC, and has been nigh since WW1?

Is it even a country? I thought it was a bit of the country where the weather so bad that even the Romans didn't want to go there.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vh-wEXvdW8

Mines the one with the holiday home deeds in the pocket...

The IOC is enabling the Chinese just like they enabled Hitler. So what else is new?

You bloody hypocrite hippies. The only reason anyone is still shouting the stupid free tibet mantra is because its fashionable (celebrities do it). I'm South African, do you hear me whining about the concentration camps and the scorched earth policy of the Anglo-Boer war, or the corruption that is still taking place under UK (and other european) companies with the full knowledge of the government who is not willing to investigate it?

The UK, EU and US (therefore also UN) are all just as evil and corrupt if not more than China. It seems tat as long as the terrorists aren't targeting your country you call them freedom fighters. If I called the IRA freedom fighters I'd probably get arrested in the UK...

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40143000/jpg/_40143516_wales_grab_203.jpg

er - no it doesn't... how dare you get my hopes up - learn your music genres fools!

"The winning designer is 26-year-old Matthew Dent, originally from Bangor who now lives and works in London as a graphic designer. "

That would be Bangor in Wales then would it?

Great Britain is Scotland, England and Wales, you are thinking of the UK which does include Northern Ireland, I'm sure the Irish ( You said Ireland) would be surprised to hear they are part of either.

Thank you, Anonymous Coward! I don't suppose you'll be at the Convention next weekend?