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Re:How Copyrights Ruined the Olympics and What You Can Learn... by nsns on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @08:19AM (#4443261)
It was so sad. An unbelievably expensive circus that mesmerized everyone for a short while, masquerading as a magical "cure" for everything. Sponsored by taxpayer money, with everyone involved (except those taxpayers) becoming a lot richer, that's the way a financial elite has come to rule the rest of the world, by lulling us into a pleasurable daze, making us poorer as they go.
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Re:How Copyrights Ruined the Olympics and What You Can Learn... by mcantelon on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @12:12PM (#4444399)
The Olympics seem, in part, about creating public debt and providing a pretext to vamp up state surveillance apparatuses. Public debt creates the need for cutbacks and cutbacks create opportunities for privatized versions of formerly public services.
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Re:How Copyrights Ruined the Olympics and What You Can Learn... by nsns on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @03:21PM (#4445407)
Not to mention the irony of multinational corporations running a show of mock national pride, the very same national pride their business helps to undermine (both financially and morally).
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