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Originally Posted by Lammarite  Also slipstreaming the Tibet protesters were other groups protesting about unrelated things. For instance, there were a group of naturists protesting that the olympics aren't held in the nude anymore in the true tradition of the original Greek games. |
Well that does seem like a valid thing to protest about at an Olympic event. Whether you agree with them or not at least it is directly relevant.
And chan13y makes some excellent points. The fundamental difficulty as I see it is that the Chinese government does not have the courage to let its people engage in this process in an open way. Authoritarian regimes are not generally good at dealing with open debate and criticism.