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.

Comments

Re:How does this affect /.ers?

[Emmett Plant]

It's nice to see that /. editors can promote themselves so as to receive the attention of aging punk rockers and all that, but what I'm questioning is the validity of this discussion in the first place.

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