I quoted that paragraph because I wanted to use his "studio manager with cancer" line as a jumping-off point - he blames filesharing, and while that may be accurate in this instance, I think it's missing the forest for the trees. If unemployed people can't get health care, let's address the health care issue directly rather than pretending the problem is that people sometimes lose their jobs.
I should not have conflated that with his other arguments where he seems to disapprove of technology and automation in general - his attack on Google Translate for putting human translators out of work, for example. I disagree with that, but for different reasons (already covered above, so I won't reiterate.)
As I say, not all of his arguments are crazy. But some of his arguments are so ridiculous that I am disinclined to take him seriously as a spokesman for anything, especially when there are plenty of people who can advocate more cogently against filesharing or on-line anonymity. The fact that he was once on one side of an issue, and is now on the other side, is not definitive proof of sagacity.
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Date: 2012-12-28 11:27 pm (UTC)I should not have conflated that with his other arguments where he seems to disapprove of technology and automation in general - his attack on Google Translate for putting human translators out of work, for example. I disagree with that, but for different reasons (already covered above, so I won't reiterate.)
As I say, not all of his arguments are crazy. But some of his arguments are so ridiculous that I am disinclined to take him seriously as a spokesman for anything, especially when there are plenty of people who can advocate more cogently against filesharing or on-line anonymity. The fact that he was once on one side of an issue, and is now on the other side, is not definitive proof of sagacity.