Hey, I hear being a jerk is the best way to get things done! It works in america, at least :^)

“Seems they doth protest too much.”

If you cared at all about artists the BBFC and the expensive requirements to get a film to screen would be the first thing you would complain about. You would be here, like the rest of us, protesting and complaining how stupid it is to have such arbitrarily expensive requirements to get a film to screen because that hurts artists. But no, you don’t care at all about artists so instead you waste your time complaining about someone that’s at least trying to do something about it.

Every opportunity you are given you either side with the distributors or you fail to focus your complaint on how the system is so broken to harm artists. Instead you focus your attention on how the person that’s trying to fix the system is wrong and childish.

While I agree that raising funds to the BBFC to make a statement is counterintuitive (making a statement by funding and hence financially supporting them) and if it were me I would probably be tempted to make a documentary about how the BBFC are a bunch of scumbags and how these scumbags should quit their jobs or else feel guilty about how they are getting paid to contribute to a social harm, the fact that your focus seems to insult those that are trying to fix the system (ie: calling their efforts childish in opposed to giving them criticism in a constructive manner with a tone supportive of their cause) instead of delivering your message in a way supportive of their cause suggests that you don’t care about artists at all. You never focus your efforts on supporting something pro-artist. Here is a perfect opportunity to show how much you care for artists by expressing your outrage at these expensive requirements and instead you focus your efforts on calling someone that’s trying to fix the system childish. Everything you do seems to be pro-distributor. How do you expect to convince anyone that you are pro-artist because if you really are you sure could have fooled me into thinking otherwise. and how do you expect your posts to actually contribute to your cause when all they do is give people the impression you don’t care at all for artists, the public, or the art but you only care about the distributors. Your posts are only harmful to your cause. It’s unbelievable that you don’t have the competence to see that.

A somewhat relevant quote

“But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”

~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/11/22/1618245

The truth is those supportive of IP laws don’t care about the artists or the public or the quality of art. The error is that they do. When IP extremists come here and present themselves the way you do they are only harming themselves because it allows the truth to collide with an error giving people a clearer perception and livelier impression of truth. The truth presents itself much stronger when presented side by side with an error. At the very least you can try to minimize that effect by at least pretending you cared for artists but you won’t even do that.