Warning RANT! You better fucking believe it. This issue is central to what I believe in... please enjoy.
I'm going to nip this one in the bud.. this is NOT a side effect of video blogging... video blogging is a lightnet medium, an open system... such devious behavior can ONLY lurk in darknet systems. This sort of illegality as in this NYTimes article is a serious issue of the new age... but video blogging is a part of the solution.. not the problem... to the extent we drag culture (kicking and screaming or not) onto the open web is to the extent that we disincentive illegal dark nets like this porn ring and illegal p2p. That said, not all dark nets are bad... they do have their place... but the huge boycott of the digital age by the incumbent corporate media complex has been like fucking prohibition area in the united states... it has created powerful discrete well organized illegal networks because of the suppression of a very large and important part of our culture... DIGITAL CULTURE... squelching these organized dark nets, these underground networks is going to take a lot of work and time... much like beating organized crime after prohibition. We have given them tremendous time and energies to put down roots and the true size, scope and effect will only be apparent in the next 15 to 20 years as we try to move into a legitimate information economy... it is traditional media entities and their unwillingness to participate in the digital age to which we owe this problem... but it'll be they who'll be hurt the most by it when they finally pull their heads out of their arses in the next 10-15 years and try to re- establish their markets in the digital age. NOW , could you imagine the effect if we suddenly pushed all gambling in las vegas below the table... within a couple years we'd create a crime syndicate so big and powerful it would take decades to clean up.... this B.S. is exactly what's happening in or current digital media climate... DIGITAL MEDIA IS THE FUTURE... and yet we have what! Apple music store! No other acceptable solutions... Sony creating root kits to prevent digitizing of audio... this huge fight over DVD encryption...technically still against the law under the DMCA... this fucking ridiculous attempt to reverse engineer ALL our broadcast systems from radio to TV with draconian legislation that would imprison all innovation to the whims of our bureaucracy and the media industry. But we by our very existence are saying.. "HEH! these legislations do not suit US... the citizens to whom law is beholden" and so we may have a chance to strike down these threats to put a cork back in open culture. It's a wonder that online culture has gone in mass to the dark recesses of the web where such evils as mentioned in this NYTimes article can take hold! All this bullshit is exactly what we're counteracting here... personally it's what drives me... that and all the amazing and creative content being produced... the cornucopia of culture... I've seen it lurking for years hidden beneath the surface of the web... occasionally popping up in through truly viral media... but most people have no idea the incredible amounts of prolific rich creative content that's being produced world wide on the web... at least not until recently... we are building with RSS and other open standards and systems the roadways with which we can open this new frontier to the masses to bring real PEOPLE, common people back into the center stage of not just american culture but world culture... In short if you're going to blame anyone... blame it on the outright greed of fat cat media companies who do inefficiencies in our capitalist systems have come to control american culture and used their control to drive rich media culture and all it's promise off the open web to cower and stew in the dark corners of the net where this sort of bullshit as seen in this New York times article can be incentived and take hold... We're fucking taking this shit back... we're putting culture and life back onto the open web and making it the center piece of cyberspace... this may not be a small notion, but it's a true notion... it may be that THIS, not the ebays and the amazon's is the true purpose and legacy of the information age... a legacy where by the masses once again take their rightful place in the world. People are coming off the couches and voices out of the dark corners of the planet to be seen and heard. Make no mistake about it, we are coming out of a feudal area in media, a dark age, and it will have tremendous impact on the politics and power structure world wide... but we have not even yet scratched the surface... this will likely take the better part of the next century... Brewster Kahle of Archive.org was right when he said we're still in the digital dark ages... in 100 years from now we'll look back and see large areas of our culture simply missing from the digital historical record because they were suppressed from online existence do backwards laws and legislation. In this future, life and culture WILL BE the center of online life, as it should be... and damn those fucking fucks who've tried to driven digital culture from the web... if they don't get their head out of their asses right quick they will rapidly find themselves irrelevant. Let this be part of the ongoing wake up call. Open media is part of the solution... it may one day prove to have it's own tyrants but this deviance is not one of them! Illegalities cannot survive open media and so as we move into this lightnet era such illegalities will be purged from popular culture in ever so fine and interesting ways... BTW, this does NOT mean legal porn would be suppressed, in fact I'm sure it will become a regular part of popular culture as well it should be... but illegalities can't stand in lightnet systems. Oh, and btw, Ms. Kitka... I finally had a chance to check out your video blog yesterday evening. It is a shinning example of pushing boundaries and taking what is seen as negative and turning it to something very positive and open... I salute you.. in fact I think your vlog is one of the best examples of what a vlog can be. Thank you, -Mike On Dec 20, 2005, at 10:10 AM, ms.kitka wrote: You're right, Deirdré, this could be a potential dark side of videoblogging but at the moment there are not very many kids videoblogging on a regular basis... and I like it that way. The more kids we have videoblogging, the more kids will be targetted. In my experience, I know that certain videobloggers DO get targetted. Since my show covers sex news, I tend to get a lot of e-mails asking me to take my clothes off (but that is something I will never do... I do not wish to pose naked on the Internet, nor do I wish to take too much attention away from my news stories). Besides me, I have no doubt that the beautiful Amanda Congdon has received filth mail like this as well. When it comes down to it, it's up to parents... they need to be informed of the dangers of purchasing webcams and digital cameras for their children. 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