They don’t necessarily tilt me because of what they actually do on a day-to-day basis in non-Olympic times.  I get their position — ie, they need to intimidate and control in order to make the population believe them.  That’s how they roll… I get it.

But stuff like this (IOC agrees to Internet blocking at the Games) really tilts me.  How dumb are the Chinese gov’t officials to partially block internet access for reporters who have access for the other 99.9% of their lives?  Don’t the Chinese officials realize that all of the reporters are going to write about it, other people are going to write about it and it will just spread more and more until a large % of the world believes they’re even bigger hypocrites and liars than people thought before the Games?  And don’t they realize what sort of people reporters typically are?  Reporters LOOOOOVE to write about people being restrained and constricted by desperate-seeming government types.  Very few things give reporters greater pleasure.

It baffles me that in a country the size of China, there aren’t any good PR people at the top of the gov’t decision-making process — or whoever is making these decisions.  And yes, it tilts me that the government of a huge country like China can really be this bad at handling worldwide public relations.

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