Recruiting for the Digital Revolution, one hater at a time.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007



Two days after I blogged about the Mac's WTF videos (see below), YouTube continues to take them down at an alarming rate. Apparently a gay gardener who grows tulips that eject orange slushy drink when lightly petted is obscene. And apparently so is a little girl who grinds plastic toy unicorns into the same slushy drink. Maybe Mac's has relented to the pressure and taken the shorts down themselves, but this is exactly what the online world is NOT supposed to be about: censorship. Artistic freedom is paramount to the digital revolution. If YouTube can't handle the truth, then I can only hope other outlets will allow for the free expression of writers and filmmakers from around the world. Yes, even a "TV commercial" warrants freedom of expression protection (because these Mac's shorts are a form of advertisement as much as I think they're masterful little works of art). Anyhow, search the Net and you'll find the WTF videos posted elsewhere; sometimes even re-posted by a growing WTF fan-base elsewhere on YouTube, as in here or here. I love these shorts for their subversive approach, and wonderfully creative wackiness. Keep 'em coming.

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