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While siculars makes a reasonable comment about authoritarian creep, I would argue that the discussion hasn't reached the required length for Godwin's law to ki

While siculars makes a reasonable comment about authoritarian creep, I would argue that the discussion hasn't reached the required length for Godwin's law to kick in, and the comment might have better been kept for a little later. It's also true, as maukdaddy elegantly puts it, that supressing fb-purity is quite a long way from genocide.

blhack 17y ago
The poem is about allowing incremental changes because they don't directly effect you; the poem itself has absolutely nothing to do with the Nazis or German intellectuals, or the genocide. The poem uses what was currently happening around its author to demonstrate his point. This is the essence of art.
- siculars 17y ago
  Thank you, well said. To me, the poem is all about the slippery slope. What was the conversation like before, during and after the DMCA went into effect? Where is the outrage over the fact that nowadays you can't fast forward past certain parts of a dvd/bluray, no not the FBI warning, but the publishers advertising. Maybe International Paper Co. owns my thoughts because I write them down on their paper. Maybe BiC does because I use their pens. Maybe Ford should get some of my paycheck because their car gets me to work. Obviously none of this is true or real but maybe it's neither because those companies don't have that kind of mechanism of control. There are so many potential ways to control the future of information it's scary when you stop to think about it. Heck, Disney controls Mickey Mouse decades after the original creators death. What is scarier here (unlike my examples) is a lot of this content is not even created by FB. It's user generated content! All I'm sayin' is a few of these companies get together and fund a lobby or two, soon enough we've got all kinds of freedom curtailing laws and then it'll be... too late!

blhack 17y ago

The poem is about allowing incremental changes because they don't directly effect you; the poem itself has absolutely nothing to do with the Nazis or German intellectuals, or the genocide. The poem uses what was currently happening around its author to demonstrate his point. This is the essence of art.

siculars 17y ago
Thank you, well said. To me, the poem is all about the slippery slope. What was the conversation like before, during and after the DMCA went into effect? Where is the outrage over the fact that nowadays you can't fast forward past certain parts of a dvd/bluray, no not the FBI warning, but the publishers advertising. Maybe International Paper Co. owns my thoughts because I write them down on their paper. Maybe BiC does because I use their pens. Maybe Ford should get some of my paycheck because their car gets me to work. Obviously none of this is true or real but maybe it's neither because those companies don't have that kind of mechanism of control. There are so many potential ways to control the future of information it's scary when you stop to think about it. Heck, Disney controls Mickey Mouse decades after the original creators death. What is scarier here (unlike my examples) is a lot of this content is not even created by FB. It's user generated content! All I'm sayin' is a few of these companies get together and fund a lobby or two, soon enough we've got all kinds of freedom curtailing laws and then it'll be... too late!