Sportswashing

Sportswashing or sportwashing is the hosting of a sporting event, or owning of a team as a means for a country to improve its reputation, particularly if it has a poor record on human rights.

For example, Amnesty International's UK branch criticised the choice of Azerbaijan as host of the 2019 UEFA Europa League Final on the basis of its human rights violations, calling the hosting of the final an "attempt to sportswash its image".[1]

Examples

gollark: My website, it has content and stuff.
gollark: New versions of TLS are meant to prevent that and osmarks.tk has support all the way up to TLS 1.3.
gollark: In ye olden SSL, apparently if your private key was leaked you could then retroactively decrypt traffic or something.
gollark: I don't think they can crack them "if needed" given modern forward-secrecy-capable TLS stuff.
gollark: I'm at least pretty confident that the NSA doesn't have access to communication between osmarks.tk and anyone who's using a modern browser to access it.

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