http://www.ted.com/talks/defend_our_freedom_to_share_or_why_sopa_is_a_bad_idea.html
In this piece Clay Shirky, a speaker for "Ted Talks" analyzes and breaks down the new proposed legislation of SOPA and PIPA regarding copy right claims and online piracy. In this lecture, the eloquent and well versed Shirky warns of the potential ramifications of these two bills if they are passed into law, the most important ones are not the most explicit. After a thorough run down on the history of the media and its push to control data dating back to 1992 with the Audio Home Recording Act (originally aimed to create discretion on legal and illegal practices) to the new legislation, SOPA and PIPA, or as I call it SPADEWRI (SOPA/PIPA Are Dangerous Especially When Regarding the Individual). What he warns of is the potential for the media reverse a centuries old concept of innocent until proven guilty to "guilty until proven innocent". Now without trial or due process the media can consider any piece of information on the internet an infringement and can censor it. As a result, in order to get off these blacklists, the media has placed a burden on us to go through the process of redeeming our material, inevitably getting us out of the equation. Shirky believes this is an incredible dangerous possibility and we must unite against and future challenges to come.
Monday, January 23, 2012
The Strained Social Relations in a region plagued by Conflict
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/01/19/blood-and-honey-courageous
Angelina Jolie has made her film production debut not as a weapon wielding super spy, but this time on the other side of the camera. As the director of her latest film "In the Land of Blood and Honey", she adresses the deep social strains and conflict that engulfed the Balkan peninsula 20 years ago and has remained ever since. Her story recalls a period of Civil War, where Religion, politics, and nationality tore apart what once was, and is trying to retain, the most beautiful land and people in the world. In the column that I provided the link for above, Liz Braun, a columnist for the Toronto Sun, attempts to review Jolie's work and hit hard on the deep undertones of the work. "It is a story about physical and emotional survival" she writes. Indeed, how can anything last in the ugly realities of war. Braun also comments on the overall response for the film. Serbians were angry at one point and Bosniaks at another, only echoing the strains that caused the conflict to begin in the first place. Braun brings across the points and provides a solid account on the film overall.
Angelina Jolie has made her film production debut not as a weapon wielding super spy, but this time on the other side of the camera. As the director of her latest film "In the Land of Blood and Honey", she adresses the deep social strains and conflict that engulfed the Balkan peninsula 20 years ago and has remained ever since. Her story recalls a period of Civil War, where Religion, politics, and nationality tore apart what once was, and is trying to retain, the most beautiful land and people in the world. In the column that I provided the link for above, Liz Braun, a columnist for the Toronto Sun, attempts to review Jolie's work and hit hard on the deep undertones of the work. "It is a story about physical and emotional survival" she writes. Indeed, how can anything last in the ugly realities of war. Braun also comments on the overall response for the film. Serbians were angry at one point and Bosniaks at another, only echoing the strains that caused the conflict to begin in the first place. Braun brings across the points and provides a solid account on the film overall.
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