Because they're probably going to be populist crap dragging his name through the mud (if that's still possible). If Hollywood is shaking hands with Obummer, and there's talk of movies being made about the assassination of Bin Laden, then it's obvious that the movie studios are just mouthpieces for political agendas. They always have been anyway. The word "Germany" or "German" couldn't even be spoken in Hitchcocks' early movies, because they were made during wartime.
Movie studios have a lot to gain by being the lap dog of government right now. Their collective push to ruin internet freedom (SOPA, ACTA, any other acronyms I've missed) stand to gain lots of points in government circles. They can put a lot of money, and cool actors and CGI blockbuster special effects to work winning the hearts and minds of the world.
It's not just movies I might add. Since storytelling was invented it's been used to push agendas.
I'm Australian. I just hope if these movies get made, they show the world how feeble my government has been in doing anything to help Assange.
Here in Australia we have microphones hanging down from the ceilings of the motor registration office, what would be called the DMV in America. They've been there for years. Not sure why Big Bro wants to listen in on bored people standing in long queues. I guess places where strangers are forced to wait for a communal, unpleasant experience (flushing money down the toilet to register a car) fosters a hotbed of revolutionary activity and discussion. Australia is a model socialist democracy (translation: benignly authoritarian corporate dominated socially engineered nanny state/dictatorship) anyway, so no one here even gives a shit anymore. Our national slogan is "No worries mate."
ha ha ha ha ha . funny. not. it's stupid replies like this that keep intelligent people out of these kinds of debates. that's the kind of smarmy crap my 11 year old son would throw back at me.
things haven't changed. humans are still the aggressive, violent, paranoid, bickering tribal monkeys they've always been. whether its some modern day terrorist using airplanes or guy fawkes trying to bomb the tower of london; techniques and locations are obviously different, but the motivations and drives are exactly the same. And the First Amendment is more important than ever in this day and age of corporate and media steamrolling of individual opinion.
"a sailing vessel being hijacked and turned into a missile targeting a skyscraper?" really? who let this guy in?
Obviously any one capable of thinking critically and objectively can see that the point of the article (it's called reading between the lines) is that the internet (along with all mass media) makes such deviant behaviour so easy to commit and perform that YES, the internet/mass media is responsible for probably more nutcases than we'll ever know submitting to their urges. Would terrorists be taking so many people hostage and beheading people on Youtube if the Internet didn't exist? Er... no. They want to be seen. The average terrorist (I'm assuming) doesn't have access to expensive TV or radio broadcasting equipment, but he most likely does have a camera phone or a cheap little video camera and a computer nearby. The internet makes it possible for literally ANYONE with a smartphone to commit all kinds of ghastly acts and broadcast them to the planet within minutes. The internet, like it or not, is indirectly responsible for the death of self control. Any need or urge can be satisfied within minutes. Would the guy have been so eager to do what he did if he had to take polaroids and post them out to millions upon millions of people? True, there will always be pyschos who are going to do horrible things.. but the complete ease with which information flows these days has made it possible for many more lunatics to do things they may not have done in a pre-internet world. The Internet is like fire: it can cook your food and keep you warm, but it can also rage out of control and burn your house down.
Here in Australia, we have Foxtel,, the first big pay tv service here. I had it, and it was ok.. but then I got sick of it, because I realized I'd been watching tv for free all my life, and why should I pay through the nose for endless re-runs and total crap, which (again), I could watch for free. Now Foxtel too has commercials, and there is no way in HELL I'm paying for the privilege of watching commercials during re-runs of Greenacres, or the latest bloody documentary about the pyramids. TV series on DVD or (for the more free spirited out there), illegal downloads are the future of TV. I'm sick of big corporations telling us what to do. If a corporation is legally a person, that means it should be able to die a bloody, agonizing death, just like a real person. I'd pay to see that.
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Really?
Because they're probably going to be populist crap dragging his name through the mud (if that's still possible). If Hollywood is shaking hands with Obummer, and there's talk of movies being made about the assassination of Bin Laden, then it's obvious that the movie studios are just mouthpieces for political agendas. They always have been anyway. The word "Germany" or "German" couldn't even be spoken in Hitchcocks' early movies, because they were made during wartime.
Movie studios have a lot to gain by being the lap dog of government right now. Their collective push to ruin internet freedom (SOPA, ACTA, any other acronyms I've missed) stand to gain lots of points in government circles. They can put a lot of money, and cool actors and CGI blockbuster special effects to work winning the hearts and minds of the world.
It's not just movies I might add. Since storytelling was invented it's been used to push agendas.
I'm Australian. I just hope if these movies get made, they show the world how feeble my government has been in doing anything to help Assange.
Apathy, mate
Here in Australia we have microphones hanging down from the ceilings of the motor registration office, what would be called the DMV in America. They've been there for years. Not sure why Big Bro wants to listen in on bored people standing in long queues. I guess places where strangers are forced to wait for a communal, unpleasant experience (flushing money down the toilet to register a car) fosters a hotbed of revolutionary activity and discussion. Australia is a model socialist democracy (translation: benignly authoritarian corporate dominated socially engineered nanny state/dictatorship) anyway, so no one here even gives a shit anymore. Our national slogan is "No worries mate."
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ha ha ha ha ha . funny. not. it's stupid replies like this that keep intelligent people out of these kinds of debates. that's the kind of smarmy crap my 11 year old son would throw back at me.
things haven't changed. humans are still the aggressive, violent, paranoid, bickering tribal monkeys they've always been. whether its some modern day terrorist using airplanes or guy fawkes trying to bomb the tower of london; techniques and locations are obviously different, but the motivations and drives are exactly the same. And the First Amendment is more important than ever in this day and age of corporate and media steamrolling of individual opinion.
"a sailing vessel being hijacked and turned into a missile targeting a skyscraper?" really? who let this guy in?
Obviously any one capable of thinking critically and objectively can see that the point of the article (it's called reading between the lines) is that the internet (along with all mass media) makes such deviant behaviour so easy to commit and perform that YES, the internet/mass media is responsible for probably more nutcases than we'll ever know submitting to their urges. Would terrorists be taking so many people hostage and beheading people on Youtube if the Internet didn't exist? Er... no. They want to be seen. The average terrorist (I'm assuming) doesn't have access to expensive TV or radio broadcasting equipment, but he most likely does have a camera phone or a cheap little video camera and a computer nearby. The internet makes it possible for literally ANYONE with a smartphone to commit all kinds of ghastly acts and broadcast them to the planet within minutes. The internet, like it or not, is indirectly responsible for the death of self control. Any need or urge can be satisfied within minutes. Would the guy have been so eager to do what he did if he had to take polaroids and post them out to millions upon millions of people? True, there will always be pyschos who are going to do horrible things.. but the complete ease with which information flows these days has made it possible for many more lunatics to do things they may not have done in a pre-internet world. The Internet is like fire: it can cook your food and keep you warm, but it can also rage out of control and burn your house down.
australia pay tv
Here in Australia, we have Foxtel,, the first big pay tv service here. I had it, and it was ok.. but then I got sick of it, because I realized I'd been watching tv for free all my life, and why should I pay through the nose for endless re-runs and total crap, which (again), I could watch for free. Now Foxtel too has commercials, and there is no way in HELL I'm paying for the privilege of watching commercials during re-runs of Greenacres, or the latest bloody documentary about the pyramids. TV series on DVD or (for the more free spirited out there), illegal downloads are the future of TV. I'm sick of big corporations telling us what to do. If a corporation is legally a person, that means it should be able to die a bloody, agonizing death, just like a real person. I'd pay to see that.