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ozymandias271:

socialjusticemunchkin:

Remember that thing some acquiantances of mine were doing a few months ago? Yeah, this thing which is on BBC now. The only proper use of IP law: trolling violent extremists who are way too close buddies with PoliceMob to have a fair and level playing field with their opponents sans unfair and utterly hilarious tricks. (I hear that at least glittery Sleipnicorn t-shirts and other utterly n e o t e n i c products can be expected.)

(And a context note for people who might want to be spoilsports about the superiority of Our American Principles about free speech etc.: I agree with said superiority and would very much prefer see said Principles applied here as well; the US has Skokie, we have PoliceMob shooting people in the eyes with FN 303s and forcibly removing absolutely nonviolent demonstrators (such as a priest simply holding up a sign about loving thy neighbor) because they present an eyesore to the fash on their parades. The only thing the anarchists (disclaimer: the person named is not known to be an anarchist, I’m talking about the demonstrators who regularly get brutally suppressed) are asking for is the same treatment the nazis get.)

IMO Our American Principles about free speech suggest that making glittery neotenic T-shirts about fascists is exactly what we should do. Everyone gets a right to say their piece, and everyone gets a right to be made fun of. EQUALITY. 

OBVIOUSLY

But bringing IP law to it is unfair and has a potential chilling effect on legit politics and basically what was done should not be able to be done in a fair world and it is absolutely hilarious nonetheless.

IP law is evil and horrible and just because it can occasionally be used for good ends doesn’t mean it stops being evil and horrible. Just like that cheap sneering on the sneerers can feel good doesn’t mean a situation where people are able to get away with cheap sneering is good.

If these guys had been silly ineffectual nazis (like Pekka Siitoin whose disciple tried to hijack a plane in the 80s using a “hypnotic-magnetic gaze” learned from Siitoin’s batshit occult stuff) trademarking their shit and pursuing it with legal means would’ve set a worrying precedent in suppressing political opponents, but in a situation where those guys have the second-biggest parliamentary party and one of the most popular national medias unambiguously on their side, with PoliceMob playing blatant favorites, and when the SOO started it by threatening legal action on the Loldiers of Odin, they were really really asking for it.