From the quote-out-of-context department comes this nugget, uttered by the head of the IOC press commission Kevan Gosper:
“We have always had an understanding, and we haven’t necessarily talked about it, that any sovereign government will block pornographic sites and what they might consider subversive, or sites which are contrary to the national interest.”
On the other side, I can now understand why the IOC had no problems whatsoever when it came to selecting China as a host for the Olympics despite everything that’s going on there. People like Naomi Wolf would say that we’re in the process of closing down our democracies anyway so I guess in time there probably won’t be much difference between a “free” country and an authoritarian one whatsoever. I think she has a point there.