{"id":488067,"date":"2010-03-30T01:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100305\/1139058438.shtml"},"modified":"2010-03-30T01:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T05:47:00","slug":"once-again-for-the-2012-olympics-police-get-special-powers-to-enter-homes-and-remove-signage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/488067","title":{"rendered":"Once Again, For The 2012 Olympics, Police Get Special Powers To Enter Homes And Remove Signage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year, before the Vancouver Olympics, there was widespread concern about a special law that was passed that allowed Vancouver police the right to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091023\/0449066652.shtml\">enter homes<\/a> and remove signs that the Olympics doesn&#8217;t like (specifically, &#8220;marketing&#8221; signs).  That seemed to trample on basic civil rights, even as the police tried to downplay the likelihood that they would use such a tool.  However, it looks like the London police have been given the exact same rights as well.  An anonymous reader sent over an article about the 2012 Olympics in London, which has a section towards the end <A href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSLDE61H1D520100303\" >highlighting similar questionable powers<\/a> given to police:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nPolice will have powers to enter private homes and seize posters, and will be able to stop people carrying non-sponsor items to sporting events.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has many people questioning why the government has tossed away their civil rights in favor of the now crassly commercial Olympics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100305\/1139058438.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100305\/1139058438.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100305\/1139058438&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=e4f48bafc8de5dd0d9dee2304f1a8bfa&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=e4f48bafc8de5dd0d9dee2304f1a8bfa&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<!-- foo --><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=F_CipNkDGy4:_uj-M_mxEwM:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=F_CipNkDGy4:_uj-M_mxEwM:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=F_CipNkDGy4:_uj-M_mxEwM:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/F_CipNkDGy4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year, before the Vancouver Olympics, there was widespread concern about a special law that was passed that allowed Vancouver police the right to enter homes and remove signs that the Olympics doesn&#8217;t like (specifically, &#8220;marketing&#8221; signs). That seemed to trample on basic civil rights, even as the police tried to downplay the likelihood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}