Team USA Advises Athletes Heading to Beijing Olympics to Leave Their Phones at Home

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Team USA advises athletes going to the Beijing Olympics to use burner phones as a precaution against possible surveillance

American athletes heading to Beijing for the Winter Olympics could find themselves without their most familiar equipment: their cellphones.

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee is encouraging Team USA to use disposable or “burner” phones instead of bringing their own devices to China, because of possible surveillance during the Games that begin Feb. 4.

 

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EzraACohen Are Spears Missing?

Good advice to use burner phones in China. Was this suggestion coming from the FBI? It feels like burners are also becoming necessary at PTA meetings or political rallies in the United States.

Why are we taking part in the Olympics? China unleash C19 on the world and kept it hidden for months. We should be going to war with them not sending our athletes to their country to play sports.

it is so good that countries are joining in Beijing Olympics now last month it was only Xi and Putin going what has changed?

ramiruua Will you attend a party hosted by a murderer or a rapist? Then why would you attend Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics! Please note that: 1) Genocide of Uyghurs is taking place in CCP China RIGHT NOW. 2) Uyghur women are gang raped in concentration camps in CCP China RIGHT NOW.

Da fuck is this, the Wire?

Why would you even go to a place where you had to issue such a recommendation? Just sayin…

jimcramer Jim 'Why Can't We Be More Like China' Cramer.

So you can be found when you disappear?

(Aaaand still no Boycott. Not like we needed any newer reasons.)

The fact that we even deal with China after everything they do to everyone else shows you that money overpowers right and wrong. These are our leaders…

“Possible” surveillance ! China is the gold medal paradigm for a dystopian surveillance state.

How about we just don’t participate in the Olympics hosted by a country that is okay with committing genocide?

Anyone find it funny that all the things that the US is accusing China are exactly what the US has been doing all the time?

How about not going?

Probably a good idea in the US too

How about we send no one to the Olympics this time.

Won't be watching

你他妈的太抬举你们自己了

There’s another option too

Ok but where did she get the pasta hat?

team USA knows very well that IOC partner, Samsung, will be giving phones and comm devices to every athlete, so this precaution is haha, tbh. ofc, they will use it.

LucasFoxNews Oh yeah. That will solve that issue

DLoesch I advise them not to go unless they want to end up in quarantine jail. Omicron is going to be rampant in Beijing.

JenGriffinFNC I am completely sympathetic to our athletes who have dedicated their lives to their sport, but honestly, we should be sending none of them to these olympics. BoycottBeijingOlympics

JenGriffinFNC Hard to believe China doesn't have the technology to monitor burner phones.

If athletes have to worry about this behavior from the host country, why is that country hosting?

You know China owns those cell towers right?

seems racist

or just don't do anything subversive; like using burner phones to avoid surveillance.

DLoesch BetterCallSaul Saul has a phone for you 'the man is listening'

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