{"id":987,"date":"2008-04-09T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mellzah.com\/?p=987"},"modified":"2008-04-09T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T12:29:00","slug":"oppressive-silencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/oppressive-silencing\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppressive Silencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A petition has been circulating around the places I frequent online, urging people to further spread it to reach its goal of collecting one million signatures. The purpose? To stop <a href=\"http:\/\/teh-dirty-robot.livejournal.com\/212448.html\">Uwe Boll<\/a> from making more movies.<\/p>\n<p>I have stated before that while he doesn&#8217;t make great movies, at the very least, he makes entertaining ones. Some may argue that he&#8217;s entertaining through utter ineptitude, and that getting B-movie laughs isn&#8217;t the same as writing something witty, but I think that&#8217;s missing the point.<\/p>\n<p>So, Boll makes movies that you don&#8217;t like. <b>So?<\/b> I don&#8217;t like fanfiction or furry porn or magazines where the guys on the front are so muscle-y that you can see every one of their veins in bulging detail. I know I don&#8217;t like these things, so I don&#8217;t read, watch, or buy them. Who then, exactly, is forcing you to sit in a theater and watch Uwe Boll movies? Is it at gunpoint? Knifepoint? Or just the utter fanboy obsessiveness that dictates that if a movie is being made on a subject you&#8217;re tangentially interested in, you MUST see it?<\/p>\n<p>While you think that passing around these petitions might eliminate that temptation or morbid curiosity from your life, I see it as something far more sinister. You&#8217;re trampling on speech; the best, truest, and most free thing we have. It&#8217;s what allows me to bitch about recycling one day, and insinuate I would do terrible, terrible things to Johnny Depp in the dark of the night the next. I spout my opinion off regularly, uninvited, and most of the people who read this do the same; no one tells you to shut up or stop writing, and if they did, I doubt any of you would take heed. Many people who read this are artists or musicians&#8211;would you stop creating art or music if someone told you that your work is crappy and offensive? <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the difference between stifling your personal speech and stifling his creativity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A petition has been circulating around the places I frequent online, urging people to further spread it to reach its goal of collecting one million signatures. The purpose? To stop Uwe Boll from making more movies. 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