After film stars becoming presidents (Reagan, Estrada in the Philippines), bodybuilders and wrestlers becoming politicians (Japan's Hase, California's Arnold), oil executives turned foreign ministers (Rice), overt international treaty saboteurs made UN representatives (Bolton) or large-scale murder tacticians become World Bank presidents (Wolfowitz, McNamara)... Now we have a 'Terminator' to uphold freedom of intellectual property in the US:
" Sen[ator] Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), once nicknamed "Terminator" for his 2003 comment that the recording industry should be allowed to remotely destroy the computers of file-sharers, was named today to head a new Senate subcommittee on intellectual property. While Hatch backed down slightly from that comment the next day, saying, "I do not favor extreme remedies -- unless no moderate remedies can be found," he has remained a staunch ally of the entertainment industry. " - TechNewsWorld (via BoingBoing)
Mmm... that's reassuring. Electronic Fahrenheit-451 anybody, sponsored by the e-entertainment industry?
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