Slightly racist message here surely :S
RIP Megaupload, you were wrongly ripped apart :(
Please excuse the horrible title.
We need a freedom of speech equivalent for the web, because if SOPA and cases like Megaupload being taken down get through, then the web will be quite simply a dictatorship. And dark too.
Who will police what?
Surely this will only provoke aggressive acts by those angry with the decisions the “law” make, and this will simply lead to war, whether it will be physical, or cyber warfare (I predict the latter). How about the internet takes a lesson from the real world and sees how these boundaries affect the general populace so greatly, and leads to so much conflict over territories and content.
Here’s the BBC article about the horrible death of a great online service.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16642369
On another note, this makes cloud storage ridiculously moot. If your service can be taken down any day without warning, people will have to start backing up data to multiple cloud services, which kind of defeats the point. Seriously legislation, WTF.
This is pretty damn cool!
I don’t normally post other stuff apart form my photography on this blog, however I just saw this video and felt very, very strongly about it, so I had to repost, and share my thoughts (which I accept are my own, and will evidently cause different reactions in everyone, but people are entitled to opinions).
*edit: I also find it ironic how the youtube thumbnail is of a topless orgy… They’re (albeit unintentionally) exploiting the very nature of the values they’re campaigning against to drive views of this crap*
//start rant
Is this meant to be about teenagers and their media consumption or simply feminist crap, spewing out the same old statistics and arguments, simply packaged and presented as teenage media influence? In my opinion, this is a load of spinned, biased rubbish.
If they wanted to talk about teenage consumption of media, they should be looking at both the good and the bad sides of the argument, instead of taking the bad sides, and misinterpreting, twisting and spinning other bits into the message they are trying to get across, which is frankly a thinly veiled feminist campaign.
I don’t see anything about how technology and media is driving and inspiring entrepreneurs, or helping kids in disadvantageous backgrounds learn, yet there are so, so many examples of this and more everywhere on the internet, and indeed life.
Don’t get me wrong, I agree there’s some over-sexualisation in some instances of the media, and violence in some video games, but at the end of the day, it’s down to the values taught to growing people by their parents, teachers and peers, and not feminists brainwashing them that all media is evil and must be abhorred.
//rant over
Pitch a tent, and take a hike. Occupy is still in Finsbury Square! From my afternoon photo-stroll-break.
