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There is no moral defense against piracy. I am certainly not going to argue that. (And did not in this conversation.) But then we talked about Spotify. Musicians, like film studios, seem to have trouble understanding the consumer perspective: Netflix is preferable on almost every level to 1) going…

Am interesting piece about online culture in general…

This list was created in 2003 by Laurence W. Britt and published in Free Inquiry Magazine. He took these characteristics from Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Papadopoulos’s Greece, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia.

1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
4. Supremacy of the military/avid militarism
5. Rampant sexism
6. A controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together
9. Power of corporations protected
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts
12. Obsession with crime and punishment
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption
14. Fraudulent elections

The original article contains longer explanations and references. Fascism Anyone? – Laurence W. Britt

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