The Internet vs. Fascist America

One kind of story that arrives at the Digg.com frontpage over and over again is the “America is going fascist”-story, either in form of an article or a video of police abusing their powers. We all remember the dont-taze-me-bro-video, and Naomi Wolfs article on making USA fascist in ten easy steps is widely read.

It’s hard to say that USA today is fascist, but it’s not hard for anyone to see that the country is going in the wrong direction when it comes to the rights of its citizens.

Of course, the Internet isn’t too happy about fascism, and it is putting up a fight. Raising public awareness about the subject seems kind of hard, because the people warning about fascism are looked upon as total nutcases. And to be honest, that’s not something anyone should find surprising seeing that they claim the government of USA is corrupt enough to have orchestrated 911, but there really is no excuse for not being pro civil rights.

And while raising quite a controverse, the movies Zeitgeist, America:From Freedom to Fascism and Loose Change all have valid points.

Now the latest incident is the get-arrested-for-dancing-at-Thomas-Jefferson’s-memorial-incident, where a woman were arrested simply because she celebrated Jefferson’s birthday at his memorial. Arrested. For dancing. At the memorial of Thomas Jefferson. The irony is just overwhelming.

But this is just the latest event, and I’m glad the Internet and the blogosphere is taking action. This incident wouldn’t get the attention it deserves if it wasn’t for the Internet.

But how valuable is this attention really? No one seems to be doing anything about this, even though everyone is agreeing that it’s wrong. Personally, I’m from Europe, and sometimes I wonder if it’s just Anti-American Europeans who care about the situation in USA.

Will the attention from the Internet be enough by itself to stop the development?

Net Neutrality is a Load of Bollocks

The new Virgin Media CEO, Neil Berkett, just made his company lose a few customers by attending an interview. You can read the full story at DigitalSpy.

In an interview with the Royal Television Society’s Television magazine, Berkett said that “this net neutrality thing is a load of b****cks”, and revealed that Virgin is already in talks with unnamed content providers about paying to have their content delivered faster than others.

This could develop into a huge net protest with boycotts and the like. TorrentFreak has an article about it, so it’s bound to reach digg.com in a couple of hours.

Comcast really hit the wall when blocking BitTorrent-traffic almost a year ago.

Help this hit the fan by digging it

Rape is Like Being Force-Fed Chocolate Cake

“Rape is simply sex (I am talking about ‘husband-rape’ here)… Women enjoy sex, so rape cannot be such a terrible physical ordeal…To suggest that rape, when conducted without violence, is a serious crime is like suggesting force-feeding a woman chocolate cake is a heinous offence.”

This is the word of a blogger, more specifically Nick Eriksen, who’s was a senior BNP official until he got sackedbecause of this quote. BNP is a far right political party in England..

In his blog, Sir John Bull – as he calls himself – feels harassed and has suspended the blog so that it can no longer be used to “damage the only party which has sensible, fair and practical answers to the problems Britain faces today.” He claims the quote is out of context, but all blog post are deleted, so there is no way to verify it.

Also, making this a discussion about Nick Eriksen and his party, is, “not acceptable and will not be tolerated.” I have to wonder what he’ll do next.

The userbase at digg.com is mad at him, but I’m not sure if this will develop into anything.

Do we hate McCain And Hillary?

Things doesnt seem to be going good for anybody but Obama these days. The social web is filling up with stories negative to anybody but Obama.

McCain’s age is really putting him at a disadvatage, and he’s made som really ridicoulus statements that seem to confirm the notion that the man is indeed senile. The latest example being his stand on deficits, which he will cut like Reagan. Problem is that Reagan tripled deficits.

Hillary really isn’t faring better, Digg.com is filled about stories about her lies on the Bosnia incident.  Now they took it to a new level, discussing Bill’s lies about Hillary’s lies.

So I predict that Obama wins the nomination, and hopefully becomes President. My fear is that Hillary followers would rather vote for McCain than Obama. Or if Hillary wins the nomination, that Obama followers vote for McCain rather than Hillary. 

Or what do you think?

Anti-Uwe Boll petition reaches 100k, 900k to go

Infamous director Uwe Boll, responsible for awful movies like Alone in the Dark and BloodRayne, were asked what he thougth of an online petition to end his filmmaking.  At the time, 18 000 people had signed the petiton, but it’s not nearly enough to make Boll question his film-making skill. So how many does it take to make Boll stop making movies. One million.

Yes, that’s right, if one million people sign the petition, Uwe Boll will resign. And what’s more is that it isn’t totally out of reach. Yesterday, the petition reached 60 000 and today we’re to passing the 100 000 milestone.

Signature number 100 000, with comment:

jay tomorrow    -    He needs to stop.

The signatures are still coming in at a good rate, so if Uwe Boll is a man of his words, there is still hope.

Examining the Internet Hate Machine

The Internet can be a mean place, not everyone is welcome. Sometimes the Internet get enraged with fury and fights back.

The best example probably being Church of Scientology’s struggle against Anonymous.

So this is where this blog is heading.