I’ve been searching YouTube for a filmclip of today’s torch ceremony for the Beijing Olympics FAN! blog, but something in my search terms keeps giving me a Page Not Found. When I get the 404, it blocks anything else on YouTube for about a minute, which is a pain in the backside. I was using things like “Beijing” “Torch” “Ceremony” and “Olympics”, not the T-word*, even though that’s where the ceremony is being held. I’m honestly not looking for anything sketchy or negative, I just want a pretty video of happy people and the torch ceremony to share on my Olympics blog with other fans. (Er, I mean Patrick’s blog, I’m starting to think it’s my blog now!) I actually want a cheery state-approved, BOCOG-approved video clip, and it’s being censored.
I really have such high hopes for China and the Olympics. It’s impossible to live in Beijing and not catch Olympic fever. But things like this make me worry.
*No, not the place with all the mountains, the other T-word. No, not the island formerly known as Formosa, the other, other T-word.
Crossposted with edits on Beijing Olympics FAN!
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It might be because YouTube is rickrolling everyone today.
It’s not just you, I can’t get past the GFC either.
Defiantly possible to live in Beijing and not get Olympic fever! Don’t buy into the hype!
YouTube is magically back up, and so is blogspot. HURRAY!!!