Subjects come up a lot for me. The short point is, organizations like the RIAA and MPAA are openly hostile to Christians and Conservatives. The media they produce is largely insulting, vulgar, and obscene. It's also no secret that the RIAA and MPAA are largely backed by Hollywood Liberals, who tend to be buddy buddy with the Democratic party. Case in point would be people like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mel Gibson, whose conservative leanings are often targets for mockery. Then there's people like Drew Carey, who was reportedly blacklisted and removed from ABC for his conservative viewpoints.
From a technical standpoint, and one of the FOSS movements and Open-Licensed software communities, it's widely agreed that entities like the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft are the clear-cut enemy. We want to open up people's rights, they want to shut those rights down. Considering who the RIAA and MPAA get along with then politically, and who they are funded by, and who speaks up for them, anybody involved in Open-Licensed software at any level should be running like hell away from the liberal democrats.
The important thing to remember though is that just because the Liberal Democrats are a clear enemy to the Open-Licensed software communities, that doesn't mean that the Republicans are automatically the clear friends of the Open-Licensed software communities. Basically, I can't tell you who to vote for. I can tell you that putting Democrats in office will certainly hurt the interests of everybody from Richard Stallman, to Linus, to Warren Woodford, to you directly. I can't tell you that voting Republican is going to help those interests though. If you are genuinely interested in making political progress and getting rid of organizations such as the RIAA and MPAA, its probably a good idea to get real comfy with other communities that despise the organizations.
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Posted by: Zerias on September 26, 2008 11:33 PMSubjects come up a lot for me. The short point is, organizations like the RIAA and MPAA are openly hostile to Christians and Conservatives. The media they produce is largely insulting, vulgar, and obscene. It's also no secret that the RIAA and MPAA are largely backed by Hollywood Liberals, who tend to be buddy buddy with the Democratic party. Case in point would be people like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mel Gibson, whose conservative leanings are often targets for mockery. Then there's people like Drew Carey, who was reportedly blacklisted and removed from ABC for his conservative viewpoints.
From a technical standpoint, and one of the FOSS movements and Open-Licensed software communities, it's widely agreed that entities like the RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft are the clear-cut enemy. We want to open up people's rights, they want to shut those rights down. Considering who the RIAA and MPAA get along with then politically, and who they are funded by, and who speaks up for them, anybody involved in Open-Licensed software at any level should be running like hell away from the liberal democrats.
The important thing to remember though is that just because the Liberal Democrats are a clear enemy to the Open-Licensed software communities, that doesn't mean that the Republicans are automatically the clear friends of the Open-Licensed software communities. Basically, I can't tell you who to vote for. I can tell you that putting Democrats in office will certainly hurt the interests of everybody from Richard Stallman, to Linus, to Warren Woodford, to you directly. I can't tell you that voting Republican is going to help those interests though. If you are genuinely interested in making political progress and getting rid of organizations such as the RIAA and MPAA, its probably a good idea to get real comfy with other communities that despise the organizations.
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