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Hong Kong Boy Scouts to Protect IP

Posted by Zonk on from the go-forth-brave-soldier dept.

phresno writes "Declan McCullagh at C|net's News.com has a short article on the development that the Hong Kong Boy Scouts Association has teamed up with the MPA to create an intellectual property merit badge. Mike Ellis of the MPA hopes this program will 'provide thousands of young people -- future leaders -- with a better understanding of the value of intellectual property.' Those with tinfoil hats will surely be thinking of the youth in Orwell's 1984."

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  1. I have an idea for several by FreeUser · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Here are several merit badges foreign powers could "suggest" (strong-arm) the Boy Scouts of America to include...in the interests of fair balance, cultural exchange, and all that:

    1) Suicide Bomber Merit Badge (sponsor: Saddam Hussein Regime in Exile)

    2) Suicide Pilot Merit Badge (sponsor: Al Q'aida)

    3) Cheese and Wine Merit Badge (sponsor: France)

    4) Diplomacy Merit Badge (sponsor: the whole of the Earth outside of the USA, note attached reads "Please America, learn this one well!")

    5) Cooperative and Free Culture Merit Badge (sponsor: the whole of the non-western world that still remembers a time when the people owned their culture, not the copyright cartels of faceless corporations).

    6) P2P Merit Badge (sponsor: every tech-savvy person under the age of 40)

    I'm sure there are others, like remedial courses in the separation of church and state, tolerance for women, tolerance for gays, and so on, but the list grows rather onerous quite quickly.

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  2. Re:The Hong Kong Boy Scouts? by TripMaster+Monkey · · Score: 0, Flamebait



    You can't seriously be this stupid.

    Even if your infinitesimal 'correction' had any merit whatsoever, that would mean you're contradicting yourself.

    Log off before you hurt yourself.

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  3. Re:This is sick by enjo13 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Keep in mind that the Boy Scouts in America are 'honorable' that they forcibly exclude boys for no other reason than being gay.

    Honorable.. hardly.

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  4. Re:Hong Kong Piracy by say · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    IP merit badge or not- the Boy Scouts have been the very model of training young boys to become fine upstanding "citizens" to our corporate oligarchy for 150 years now

    And let's not forget the racist/fascist training which suddenly stopped in 1945.

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  5. Re:Baden Powell would spin in his grave by Circlotron · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "The Boy Scouts were formed to make boys of upright character to serve the military and the Empire well." Some people see parallels between these and the Hitler Youth. Note also the picture of the young boy on this page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Youth/