Jess Sloss aka @thattallguy

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Jess Sloss
Jess Sloss

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Thumbs up During the Olympics Stephen Harper, Gordon Campbell on the restrictive Olympic red mittens

via vancouversun.com


The full story can be found on the Vancouver Sun.

We've seen, Olympic copy right restrictions, demonstration restrictions, and that bizarre policy allowing the integrated security units to 'remove signs', BUT this is too much.

They soon to be ubiquitous red gloves have restrictions themselves, as
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and BC Premier Gordon Campbell demonstrated on Thursday.

From the Vancouver Sun:

"I like the thumbs up," Campbell said, with Harper at his side holding an Olympic torch.

"You can't put anything up but the thumb," replied Harper.

"He can't give you the finger in those things," he added, chuckling at the reporters in the room.

Campbell responded: "I've never experienced that."

Ha Ha ha .... these Olympics are going to be quite a show

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AP and News Corp: Bitch, Whine, Bitch, Whine and repeat

AP CEO Tom Curley and famed News Corp head honcho Rupert Murdoch told media today that news content creators were being exploited by third parties “such as Wikipedia (Wikipedia), YouTube (YouTube), and Facebook (Facebook)” and that “aggregators and plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content.”
via mashable.com

Click here to read Mashable's full post, including beautiful quotes like:

Rupert Murdoch: “The aggregators and plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content. But if we do not take advantage of the current movement toward paid content, it will be the content creators, the people in this hall, who will pay the ultimate price and the content kleptomaniacs who triumph.”

Dream on buddy. The loser will be the huge multinational corporations that have been taking advantage of controling the news for years.

The journalists in that hall have an unprecidented level of access to information, community and audience. They don't need you anymore.

 

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