Journalists Reportedly Banned From Smartphone Photography At Olympics In Russia

Journalists will be allowed to use Instagram, Twitter and other social media to post still photos and news from the Sochi Olympics, International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams confirmed to For The Win in an email on Monday.

"Please take as many photos as you like!" he wrote.

"Sharing pix on social media positively encouraged," he added in an additional email.

People pay a lot of money for permission to take photographs and videos of the things. There's even technology specifically set up to bypass restrictions on it, cameras with radios attached so that if they get confiscated the images are already safe off-site spring to mind.

IME the line usually falls along whether the equipment someone's coming in with looks professional or not. Though with smartphones getting better cameras it's at least understandable that people would get their wires crossed.

Journalists Reportedly Banned From Russia

Journalists Banned From Russia

Banned From Russia

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'nuf said.