An update on the pro-Tibet tech-art protests happening in Beijing: Students for a Free Tibet tells Boing Boing that a group of five pro-Tibet activists displayed an LED Throwie Banner near the Olympics site in Beijing, and were promptly detained by Chinese authorities.

I knew this was going to happen. This is not the Man you can play around with. People "disappear" and are never seen again over there.

Activists detained after lighting up "Free Tibet" LED throwies banner near Olympics