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in “the land of the free” the producers of ideas & the creators of word, image & music act as if the compensation which they gain in such ventures should be greater than that of those who work on cures for diseases or protect their children at night from violence & destruction--- what exactly these “artists” make their art for gets overshadowed by the fact that they gain profit for doing so within the walls of the empire & now they whine again through an attempt to get the state to work at censoring the whole of the people with SOPA & PIPA. the hands of the state grip slowly round the necks of every single person who uses the internet & as it begins to strangle us it will not protect anyone, but instead it will actually inhibit true art from being produced, as the obvious ability to make money of what one creates will be the primary reason to do it at all--- this has been exemplified by the outcry of those who think that it should be. the internet itself so beautiful in its ability to not be tamed or harnessed by any one entity is spawned from that part within those of us who wish not to be controlled & who wish to share amongst each other anything & everything that we see fit as it gives us pleasure in the doing--- in that, we are all creators we are all artists we are all cultural producers & an attempt by anyone to stifle that ability is one that must be taken seriously as a threat against our own potential for growth.
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