The Null Device

Actually, Graham, I think Beijing would be a perfect candidate for the 2008 McLympic Games. The mechanisms of repression already in place could be put to use preventing people from wearing anti-Nike T-shirts in the vicinity of venues or tourist areas, or from otherwise diluting the sponsors' eyeball-herding investment by consuming non-sponsor products. A special law suspending civil liberties for the duration of the McLympics, as was passed in NSW, would not even be needed to turn Beijing into an Olympic Disneyland.

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