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Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's Emmett
You remember the story I wrote about Outcast, the gay magazine in the UK that had their website pulled because of stupid legislation, poor competition and a frightened ISP? Well, I've been invited to speak about it on eYada's Rotten Radio, an internet radio show hosted by John Lydon, better known to the world as Johnny Rotten, lead singer of the Sex Pistols. I'll be on the show tonight; the show runs from 4-8pm EST. You'll need RealPlayer.
please, let's do whis without any "God Save The Queen" puns!
--Jim
three informative/funny posts, and the rest just trolls... does anyone else have the sinking suspecion that those pop-up adds on aol are starting to contain links to slashdot?
I mean, who is really interested in what is happening to a magazine in England? Anyone? Why can't we have more important stories about stuff that directly affects us as Americans, and leave the rest of the world to their half-baked socialist fantasies. America is the greatest nation on Earth and what happens here will affect everyone, and so American issues are the real things that need to be discussed here. Anything else is of secondary importance.
Censorship affects us all. If the UK passes stupid legislation that promotes censorship online, it means that in the states, I'm being stopped from viewing the information.
This is not a gay issue, it's not even a newspaper/magazine issue. This is a clear-cut censorship and anti-competition issue.
--Emmett
Also, check out #slashdot on irc.openprojects.net
You move the site out of the country, somewhere that doesn't give a shit about what you're publishing, you then update the DNS records to point to the new address.
It'll take all of a day to accomplish plus a couple of days to propagate.
On the Internet, *WE the people* have the power, not them.
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"Litigation and governments getting in here will fuck the whole thing up." -- Johnny Rotten on the Internet
That sums up my whole outlook on it.
-- iCEBaLM
With the number of worthwhile comments posted these days, I think by default *any* post should be -1. This way the moderators will only have to moderate the 2 or 3 non troll comments up rather than moderate down the other 80 posts.
"I'm not an anarchist, but..."
;) don't know if it was intentional or not.
good one emmett
don't have anything important to say, but i enjoyed the combined rantings of both emmett and mr. lydon.
For any of you that didn't actually go hear the show from yesterday, 4/8/00. Check out the yewrl in the article from emmett. The show was certainly worth a listen. emmett's section is about 2 hours and 40 minutes into the show.
If you do listen to it, take note of the part where they begin discussing napster and mp3s in general. Notice how emmett (our hero of open source and information freedom crusader) takes the protagonist side of the issue. While, Jonny "Rotten" Lydon, a musician leans toward the antagonist. Thanx for the informative and nerdy half hour emmett.
- tre
http://piclabs.com
I have my threshold set to 3, which gives a pretty good indication of the quality of replies to any one topic. On this item there is only 1 out of 190 that reaches a score of three. That's really sad. I'm starting to agree with those who have had it with this forum due to the mass immaturity, homophobia, ethnocentricity, xenophobia that borders on racism, to say nothing of the rife sexism.
Not only that, but the sheer stupidity of some people who leap to defend the very things that threaten their own rights is just mind-buggering. Wake up people, an injury to one is an injury to all, and the more we let the powers that be feed prejudice, attack freedom of sexuality, or speech, the more they'll be encouraged to fuck you over next. Of course this kind of thing needs challenging in public forums everywhere, including the radio.