OmSigDAVID wrote:real life wrote:Just an update on this classic liberal:
EJ now wants to shut down the internet as well.
Quote:POP legend Sir Elton John wants the internet CLOSED DOWN.
Never one to keep his opinions to himself, the Rocket Man has waded into cyberspace with all guns blazing.
He claims it is destroying good music, saying: "The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff.
"Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is sometimes OK but it doesn't bode well for long-term artistic vision.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007350453,00.html
Instead of listening to the King of Tolerance, they are out there making their own records!
It's gotta be stopped!
Typical liberalism. Ban religion and shut down the internet. What's next?
Cud it be possible that he has contracted AIDS of the brain ?
Anyway,
I entreat u not to characterize him as a " classic liberal "
as the philosophy of classical liberalism is of such
l' aissez faire
individualists and libertarians as: Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham,
Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater, and ME; all lovers of personal freedom;
( this is distinct from the
evil collectivist liberalism of Roosevelt, Kennedys,
and John ).
David
I don't think AIDS is to blame for John's hatred of freedom.
I'll drop the 'classic' from my description of him. He's simply a good fit with the politically liberal elites of the modern era.
He and many other music artists aren't making nearly as much money as they used to via their recording contracts with typical music industry companies because the old system of marketing and distributing proprietary recorded musical products has been bypassed by the internet.
It is an issue of freedom and greed for both sides of the problem.
Yeah, I understand.
Shut down a free speech medium used by billions of people so that a few multimillionaires can make more.
Now flip the coin. Are you able to see those same attributes from the other side?
I don't know of anyone else advocating shutting down the internet, do you?
Even the inventor of the internet, Al Gore, doesn't think it should be shut down.
Al Gore is not the inventor of the internet.
I made my above comments before reading the rest of the article you exerpted.
In that article, Elton fully explains himself. It also says he is giving away many of his songs for free on the internet so money and the music industry's financial woes is not Elton's motive.
Basically, he is saying the same thing about the internet that people have said about television for several decades, that too much of it rots your brain and folks need to get up and go outdoors to talk with each other now and then.
Butrflynet wrote:Al Gore is not the inventor of the internet.
He's not?
He said he was.
You mean he lied in order to trick America into using this technology?
Shoulda impeached him while we had the chance.
No matter. We can impeach him a few years from now.
