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Is it a form of censorship to not go to a powerful forum about censorship and give your ideas against censorship? If all those against, lets say "censorship",
by Andrew_Quentin 15y ago
Is it a form of censorship to not go to a powerful forum about censorship and give your ideas against censorship?
If all those against, lets say "censorship", are silent when a major debate is being heard on it, then who do you think will get all the PR, and win in the end?
I think for Cory it is a privilege that he was invited and it would have been a privilege to take part in the debate. It is an important debate, whatever their motives may be. We are at a turning point, and all voices ought to be heard, lest we, our society, makes an irrational decision because of the silence of some.
Speak louder. That is, after all, what needs to be protected.
- bluedanieru 15y agoI am torn on that because I'm not sure that choosing not to attend was a wise decision. But anyone who didn't back the interests of mass media going into that forum had to know that the deck was stacked against them. That is, that they would be regarded as a sideshow - a token representative from outside the sphere of consensus. That's all John Barlow is here. Let's have EFF put together a similar event and see how many representatives from the copyright regime show up. Let's see if they get Jim Gianopulos from 20th Century Fox. Let's not pretend this entire conference was anything other than a PR stunt. These are the same assholes behind ACTA.