Perhaps some shadowy vigilante is trying to highlight the problems with this guilty-until-proven-innocent system, by infecting high-profile targets and causing as much of a media circus as possible.
Presumably, if enough politicians got thrown in jail for no reason, some momentum might build up towards curtailing the excesses of this law-enforcement-gone-mad, and America's children wouldn't have to worry about losing their fathers due to an internet virus, or getting tossed in the slammer themselves for 'sexting' underwear-pics of themselves to their boyfriends.
A cross between Enemy of the State and No Country for Old Men.
The main character spends the first 30 minutes just mowing the lawn, at which point FBI agents arrive and kick him in the teeth because apparently his antivirus software expired, and his computer is downloading child-porn.
Cue an epic chase across America, as all the dude's friends turn on him or take shots at him, each of his civil rights are ignored, and he is eventually shot trying to get across the border.
Just wait 'til they get these things recommending foreign music.
I can't say whether that's good or bad, really. On the one hand, I don't want to hear any more Daler Mehndi than I have to... but on the other hand, I would've liked to have been recommended Coeur de Pirate a long time ago.
Seems to me, if people are turning away from the 'educated' journalists in news-media and reading bloggers, etc., instead... a better solution than forcing the government to artificially extend the life of print publications would be to launch education or certification programmes to improve the quality of the free online news-media.
Bloggers and websites are already giving us for free what we used to pay journalists for... if we can use these programmes to increase the quality of these news sources to be equal to or greater than the current print media (not hard in some cases), and give them the rights, resources and opportunities to investigate and report unbiased, factual news, then the death of the traditional media would hardly be felt by anybody.
It's easy to slip partisan politics and sensationalist bullshit past your editor these days - but try to post that kind of crap on Wikipedia, and see how long it takes for the real facts to reassert themselves. People don't need newspapers any more, they just need to work together and to know what they're doing.
Look at the quality of Wikinews today, with no paid employees, no particular educational aids or special resources, and tell me the government's money is better spent propping up failing media rather than making the New Media better.
Of course it's going to be a damn good Wheel of Time book: the new author is a great deal better than Robert Jordan ever was.
It's almost a shame he's wasting his talent on continuing this series, though... it's going to cause me physical pain to have to read through any more of Jordan's repetitive, derivative crap just to get to the new book.
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Perhaps some shadowy vigilante is trying to highlight the problems with this guilty-until-proven-innocent system, by infecting high-profile targets and causing as much of a media circus as possible. Presumably, if enough politicians got thrown in jail for no reason, some momentum might build up towards curtailing the excesses of this law-enforcement-gone-mad, and America's children wouldn't have to worry about losing their fathers due to an internet virus, or getting tossed in the slammer themselves for 'sexting' underwear-pics of themselves to their boyfriends.
A cross between Enemy of the State and No Country for Old Men. The main character spends the first 30 minutes just mowing the lawn, at which point FBI agents arrive and kick him in the teeth because apparently his antivirus software expired, and his computer is downloading child-porn. Cue an epic chase across America, as all the dude's friends turn on him or take shots at him, each of his civil rights are ignored, and he is eventually shot trying to get across the border.
Just wait 'til they get these things recommending foreign music. I can't say whether that's good or bad, really. On the one hand, I don't want to hear any more Daler Mehndi than I have to... but on the other hand, I would've liked to have been recommended Coeur de Pirate a long time ago.
God just likes 'em pudgy.
Seems to me, if people are turning away from the 'educated' journalists in news-media and reading bloggers, etc., instead... a better solution than forcing the government to artificially extend the life of print publications would be to launch education or certification programmes to improve the quality of the free online news-media. Bloggers and websites are already giving us for free what we used to pay journalists for... if we can use these programmes to increase the quality of these news sources to be equal to or greater than the current print media (not hard in some cases), and give them the rights, resources and opportunities to investigate and report unbiased, factual news, then the death of the traditional media would hardly be felt by anybody. It's easy to slip partisan politics and sensationalist bullshit past your editor these days - but try to post that kind of crap on Wikipedia, and see how long it takes for the real facts to reassert themselves. People don't need newspapers any more, they just need to work together and to know what they're doing. Look at the quality of Wikinews today, with no paid employees, no particular educational aids or special resources, and tell me the government's money is better spent propping up failing media rather than making the New Media better.
Of course it's going to be a damn good Wheel of Time book: the new author is a great deal better than Robert Jordan ever was. It's almost a shame he's wasting his talent on continuing this series, though... it's going to cause me physical pain to have to read through any more of Jordan's repetitive, derivative crap just to get to the new book.