- Stereotype begets stereotype...
- Like the stereotype that Certain Organized Religions are more likely than others to go bugfuck crazy when someone implicity (or explicitly) criticizes their dogma; there's always the cracker incident on the Western side of the divide to consider, too...
- Or, of course, one could just ponder porn not as free speech per se, but as an impetus for it. But that could never happen here... unless you actually think about what happened over at Comedy Central. Or, for that matter, the partisan political motivation for the Comstock Act.
- Didn't we just see something like this earlier this week (second bullet)?
- Anthems for intellectual property, proving yet again that doing what Weird Al Yankovic does is a lot harder than it looks...
- This is just too recursively interesting to ignore: An Untergang parody of the takedown notices for Untergang parodies (which is recursively interesting for reasons relating to its credited creator and his, umm, "interesting" views of fair use...). I still think the best ones were Cristiano Ronaldo and the law review article, but they're both down (and even if they weren't, the links would probably expire pretty damned quickly), and they're amusing as much for the snarky inside commentary under their surfaces as anything else. And, of course, the contrast between the "subtitles" and the actual speech is even more hilarious than usual.
Law and reality in publishing and entertainment (seldom the same thing) from the creator's side of the slush pile, with occasional forays into politics, military affairs, censorship and the First Amendment, legal theory, and anything else that strikes me as interesting. |
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23 April 2010
These Link Sausages Made by Long Pig
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