Re:US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for ...
by wwweston on Monday May 27, 2013 @12:55AM
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> And your answer is Stallman?
Stallman is absolutely part of the answer.
Sure, not everybody can be RMS and live the way he does. He's still correct about the importance of values he's staked out and made a lifelong effort to demonstrate and respect. And to the GP's point, when you have content producers arguing they need legalized malware to police every machine, it makes it all the more obvious how much we need voices insisting on user freedom.
> More of those outliers that get lampooned in every media outlet for railing against the status quo?
While I agree it's good for activists to consider how their messaging might be received by various audiences, the fact that media outlets -- and even everyday citizens or presumably otherwise intelligent commentators on HN -- tend to collapse people to caricatures may not be an indictment of activists.
> Otherwise get back on the bench with the rest of us, because all your whining about mass media and celebrity culture is just that.
You've managed to work up a good froth of whine yourself there for somebody complaining about whining -- apparently summoned up to promote the ethic of more quiet frustration.
Even if effective political action can't let its end be posts on a website, it starts with people talking to each other. Maybe even here.
Stallman is absolutely part of the answer.
Sure, not everybody can be RMS and live the way he does. He's still correct about the importance of values he's staked out and made a lifelong effort to demonstrate and respect. And to the GP's point, when you have content producers arguing they need legalized malware to police every machine, it makes it all the more obvious how much we need voices insisting on user freedom.
> More of those outliers that get lampooned in every media outlet for railing against the status quo?
While I agree it's good for activists to consider how their messaging might be received by various audiences, the fact that media outlets -- and even everyday citizens or presumably otherwise intelligent commentators on HN -- tend to collapse people to caricatures may not be an indictment of activists.
> Otherwise get back on the bench with the rest of us, because all your whining about mass media and celebrity culture is just that.
You've managed to work up a good froth of whine yourself there for somebody complaining about whining -- apparently summoned up to promote the ethic of more quiet frustration.
Even if effective political action can't let its end be posts on a website, it starts with people talking to each other. Maybe even here.