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Thursday, January 12, 2006
I'll see you in Hell, NERDS!
 Seeing the hornets' nest, Sam Bulte gave it a whack ... on video:
People support me because they support my voice for the artist and I will not allow Michael Geist and his pro-user zealots, the Electronic Frontier Foundation members to intimidate me into silenc(ing) my voice.
And the slip of the corpo-speak suddenly made it clear that she really has been bought by the Big Money: we're not users, we're citizens and Geist and the EFF have been reminding us that our rights are being trampled by corporations who are in a frenzied state of wanting to own everything, using the filesharing boogeyman as leverage.
You have to have some sympathy for her for two reasons: 1) she's a Boomer, didn't grow up with computers and lacks an intuitive sense of what's going on in the culture, and 2) was probably made a little dizzy by so much close contact with the entertainment industry. Who, in her position, wouldn't have been seduced by the glow of showbiz?
Anyhow, a few weeks ago someone in the Globe observed that the sort of blog mobilization seen in the US hadn't yet occured during this election campaign. Well, here ya go ...
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