Olympic Blogs Banned
You may earn medals, but you have no credentials. On top of the IOC's ludicrous linking policy, they are banning bloggers, perhaps to further asocial broadcast media, like this:
Unfortunately, this is not Anthony Famiglietti, but Steve Ahillen. The International Olympic Committee has informed athletes that they are not to do diaries or any other types of stories while under the Olympic Games umbrella. This apparently is not a new rule, however, it is being applied to a new technology, namely blogging...
Some are rightly invoking the first amendment. The linking policy may not be legally sound. My read of the policy against Olympian blogging is to ban blogs set up specifically for the games.
But these are personal blogs, and since when have we been good at sticking to one topic? Make one post about your cat and you may be covered, but check with your lawyers or the ACLU, as there is no blogging legal defense fund.
I'm starting a boycott: Tivo the Olympics and Buy the Unsponsored
