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It's about time to actually begin punishing Hollywood for the evil shit they're doing. It's not enough to just respond in defense when they try, time and time a
by shingen 15y ago
It's about time to actually begin punishing Hollywood for the evil shit they're doing. It's not enough to just respond in defense when they try, time and time again, to destroy the Internet.
It's time for a boycott, along with a large campaign, something along the lines of: Americans against Hollywood. It's necessary to turn their public image into a giant black mark that nobody wants associated with.
- sek 15y agoThe first comment on ars was very interesting, lets lobby for transparent accounting practices in the Movie business. It is incredible what they do, they almost never pay taxes this way and a lot of people at the bottom get screwed. It is really painful to hear when they argue with the poor workers and blame the internet.
- schwabacher 15y agoYou know they can turn that right back around on the tech industry, right?
- corford 15y agoExcuse my naivety but how exactly (excluding the handful of tech industry stock option scandals over the last 15 years or so)?
- schwabacher 15y agohttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-shows-how-60-billion-u-s-revenue-lost-to-tax-loopholes.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho... Google, Microsoft, and Facebook among others use tax dodges to pay negligible amounts of tax in the United States.