Plus, this has nothing to do with the site's editorial line. I remind you of the frontpager duties:
So frontpagers rarely step in as moderators in their function as frontpagers (frontpagers are also normal community members, with the same rights to comment and rate and have opinions). Generally, when a frontpager intervenes with the authority of a frontpager, s/he will indicate so by posting a comment in which s/he will use the moderation tag, which looks like this: [ET Moderation Technology™] .
That is also a subtext of my disgust with these Tibet puff pieces as well. "C'est un scandale !"
Activists are looking for a symbolic, but highly visible, way to protest for Tibet and press freedom in China, and they found a perfect one.
What struck me most in all the images was the close protection to the flame, visibly imposed by the Chinese authorities, who have themselves decided that touching the flame would be an attack on them, and are overreacting. And what it shows is an authoritarian regime looking cornered, which is a good thing.
The Games have not been disrupted.
If anything, this also shows that the Chinese have soemthing to learn from our own leaders: they still seem able to be shamed, which makes them less effective at wielding power against the masses... In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
