This guy absolutely disgusts me -- he doesn't give a shit about free speech, he just wants to live in his enormous mansion and eat far too much food and drive expensive cars and show off his trophy wife.
These people absolutely disgust me -- they don't give a shit about their loyal fans, they just want to live in their enormous mansions and eat far too much food and drive expensive cars and show off their sham Hollywood tabloid marriages.
People who are ideologically aligned to you you stand by, people who are co-incidentally aligned to you you get to choose. In the case of Kim dotcom I think I'd want to stand a long way away from the man - some of the current stuff may be trumped up but the older stuff seems pretty nailed on.
It saddens me so much that news.ycombinator has lowered to this kind of comments. And the fact that they are up-voted show the problem of the eternal September.
If users start using say github, to share movies, will the github founders be whisked away to jail and the site shut down without any due process?
Is free speech only good insofar as it can be used as a tool to create an ethically prudent world? Does free speech lose its appeal if it's invoked by Kim Dotcom and not only by rms?
He's trying to lump the Megaupload takedown alongside SOPA, PIPA, etc. to ride the wave of discontent that challenged those pieces of legislation.
It's cynical and insincere.
In a sense, as a fan of free speech, I'd rather he didn't associate himself with the cause.
he doesn't give a shit about free speech,
he just wants to live in his enormous mansion
and eat far too much food and drive expensive cars
and show off his trophy wife