Comments | pointedview: Tibet and the torch

pointedview

Tibet and the torch

Apr 09, 2008 02:39

I'm sure most of you are aware of the controversy and protest over the Olympics being held in China, and whether or not the US should boycott them.

I was a citizen of Atlanta when the '96 Olympics were held. I was also a member of Amnesty International back in college, and became acquainted with Equality Now a few years back thanks to the Firefly ( Read more... )

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Olympics, phooey kendalld April 12 2008, 04:55:33 UTC

I was in Atlanta during the olympics as well. What a marketing mess. I thought my disgust with the event was over when I left town.

Then the IOC sued a game company because the back of their cards had 5 interlocking rings. Give me a break.

The olympics (lower case intentional) is nothing more than another marketing franchise.

Re: Olympics, phooey pointedview April 12 2008, 16:14:49 UTC

I remember when they cracked down on The Varsity for their cute little onion ring pin because there were five onion rings arranged in the box to look like, well, rings. The pin immediately became the most valuable collectible at the games, so fat lot of good their crackdown did.

Which game company? I don't recall hearing about that.

I agree with you that the olympics (lowercase also intentional) has become a marketing machine, and it makes me sad.

Re: Olympics, phooey kendalld April 14 2008, 18:45:27 UTC

Legend of the Five Rings is the game in question. (http://www.l5r.com/)

Looks like you can see the old logo here (http://l5rshop.com/images/l5r_old.jpg). The game was temporarily owned by Wizards of the Coast; that's when the lawsuit occurred.

Re: Olympics, phooey pointedview April 15 2008, 05:20:27 UTC

Oh, yeah, I remember that one, vaguely.