The ChiComs have just jailed another cyber-dissident for four years because he posted items on the Internet that the government didn’t like. According to Reporters Without Borders, there are more than 80 people in prison right now because of their activities on the Internet or as traditional journalists.
Do I expect a boycott to change the ChiComs? No.

What I am suggesting is that you don’t spend your money putting a pretty face on a thug regime that silences free speech by jail, torture, and worse.

Let the athletes participate. Jesse Owens showed the world in 1936 that one could compete before a dictator and do so with dignity.

That’s different than spending thousands of dollars to put a smiling face in the stands so that an oppressive government can use you as propaganda while it crushes fundamental freedoms.

Remember Tiananmen Square. Stay home.

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With an advanced international law degree from Georgetown University and more than 14 years of real world legal experience, Attorney Mike Young shows entrepreneurs how to protect and grow their businesses online. He's the author of Internet Marketing Legal Secrets Revealed. Not just a lawyer who focuses exclusively on Internet and marketing law, Mike’s been working with computers for more than 27 years (his first computer was an Atari 400 with 8 KiB RAM) and started representing Internet businesses back in 1996.