That made for really interesting reading.

It also reminds me of the Olympic boycotts of the early 80s with the Moscow and Los Angeles Olympics.

Of course I find China's suppression of information (and Tibet) deplorable but am not shocked because the information is electronic. Censorship of information is nothing new and we take our freedom of speech for granted but the shear scale of China's censorship is staggering and one can only wonder for how long they can keep it up.

Whether we should boycott the Olympics, I don't know because it will always come back down to money. If we boycott them, they will simply boycott us in London 2012. The question depends on how much we are prepared to give up to Tibet's cause and our ideals of freedom of speech.