Re: OT: Wartime Warner Bros. Was (RE: [dvd-discuss] HangtheRIAA i n theirown noose.)

[Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org]

The practice of re-writing history to fit a political or social agenda is 
called propaganda....but what's more by selectively destroying the 
historical record future generations loose the abilility to understand 
earlier ones or just how far we have progressed. My next door neighbor was 
sent to a concentration camp in Utah in 1942 because of her ethnic 
heritage. Hiding that shameful past does not prevent incidents of that 
type from occuring in the future but almost insure that they will.

Take a look at GWTW and TWGD. TWGD is also a criticism of history and the 
romanticiation of it by Margaret Mitchell. Copyright law is being used to 
suppress that criticism as well.




"John Zulauf" <johnzu@ia.nsc.com>
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Noah silva wrote:
> 
> Ok,
> 
> but is that such a grossly bad thing?

Not per se.  Certainly I don't want racist cartoons on "The Cartoon
Channel" or as part of the primary education process (K-5).  However,
the ability for middle school children and older to understand our past
and to understand how to continue to make ours a better people and "a
more perfect union. (as a white male growing up in the scandinavian
northwest in the 60's I know it took a long time to understand *just how
bad* it was in the south or in the 50's-60's... the 70's I witnessed as
a teen) 

> I am not saying we should forget everything, but the past is also the 
past
> and I can't immagine any company (or any other type of
> organization) wanting to remind everyone of something it participated in
> that is now out of public favor.  Organizations spend lots of money on
> advertizing, etc. to show themselves in a POSITIVE light.

It is the combination of anticircumvention, copy prevention, and long
copyrights that allow companies today to hide the past, as the
Scientologist now hide the present.  If the trend increases, then the
only honest histories will be kept only by those who scoff the law for
the sake of the truth.

When the truth and the law are on opposing sides, something is hideously
wrong with the law.

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