As the Olympic flame circus reaches Wales, it’s worth reminding ourselves how controlled and staged managed everything is to do with the Olympics and how dissent of any kind from the narrative is not tolerated as the case of anti capitalist protestors Space Hijackers highlighted to their costs on Wednesday.
Space Hijackers set up a parody website and a Twitter account last week styling themselves as the ‘Official Protesters of London 2012’ in the same vein as Cadbury are the Official Confectioners of London 2012, only London’s organizers failed to see the funny side and claimed copyright on their Twitter account and asked Twitter bosses to close the account down which they duly did.
After a flurry of tweets and articles appeared in support of the group in the mainstream media the story moved on and according to the Guardian ‘The group says that after it wrote to Twitter, the account was unlocked late on Wednesday afternoon and it had been given 48 hours to comply with Twitter's orders or face having the account, with its 2,700 followers, permanently suspended.'
The real irony for London’s Olympic organizers is that few people had probably heard of the Space Hijackers as they had 2,700 Twitter followers, but due to London 2012 lack of dissent it's given the group a timely boost and load of free publicity.
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