Bono: We Should Use China's Censorship As An Example
Found on Techdirt on Sunday, 03 January 2010
Back in 2008, he did say that he mostly agreed with McGuinness that somehow ISPs were to blame for all of this. Then, in early 2009, there was an amusing interview where he basically said that piracy is bad, but he couldn't really speak out against it because he was too rich, and people would point that out.
In the past, the "young, fledgling songwriter" couldn't live off ticket or t-shirt sales either. He had to hope that he got the lucky golden ticket from a record label and that they didn't then crush his spirit and originality before discarding him as an unrecouped has-been.
Bono's article is laughable. He pretends to be Mr Save-the-world but contradicts himself so many times; because someone who cares about the world doesn't pay for an airplane ticket just to have his beloved hat flown ower. Stomping out piracy by turning the ISP into a chinese Big Brother who monitors every single step you do is his number two for the next decade. The most important thing is turning cars back into sex objects. Yes. That is the number one. It's not the carbondioxide deal, fighting cancer or freedom of the masses. This is also where Bono contradicts himself: he calls for a hard enforcing of the status quo in music, but at the same time goes on about how masses can change the world today and favors "Viva la (Nonviolent) Revolución". Seems like "la revolución" is only nice as long as it doesn't affect his dollars. Hopefully he will decide to sell his music only in China now; since their filtering is oh-so-great.