The Great Dictator(1940): The Greatest Speech Ever!

I was really bored after studying about infinite series and different types of tests, convergence. divergence bla bla bla......

So I decided to watch a movie. After going up and down my movies collection I found it- The Great Dictator (1940). It has to be one of the best movies I have ever seen.
Its been many years since I last watched it.

In the past few weeks all the news channels have been showing only about how people are dying everywhere throughout the world. People killing each other in Gaza, ISIS beheading innocent journalists, floods in J&K... agony, death, despair.. everywhere.

Its chaos and destruction wherever you look on the world map.
And this movie today almost 74 years later talked about things the whole world has chosen to forget.

Transcript of Charlie Chaplin's speech:

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost....

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish...

Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. 

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

After this he says:

Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up Hannah! The clouds are lifting! The sun is breaking through! We are coming out of the darkness into the light! We are coming into a new world; a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed, and brutality. Look up, Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow! Into the light of hope, into the future! The glorious future, that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. 

Look up, Hannah. Look up!

This has to be the greatest message that Chaplin gave the world 74 years back... Its so sad that people no longer remember this..

"Liberty will never perish..."

I am waiting to see the clouds lift... and the Sun to break through... cause what I see now is sorrow and suffering.. and this isn't how the world should be like.. this isn't how people have to suffer..

Let us all hope.

The Streisand effect vs Right to be forgotten: ISIS Propaganda & TheFappening

First let us start off with defining all these big words in the title, and as every sane person we will take help of Wikipedia.

The Streisand Effect

The Streisand effect is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet.
It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose 2003 attempt to suppress photographs of her residence in Malibu, California inadvertently generated further publicity of it.

Right to be Forgotten 

The right to be forgotten is a concept that has been discussed and put into practice in the European Union (EU) (most notably France) and Argentina in recent years.
In 2012, the European Commission published plans for a "right to be forgotten" law, allowing people to request that data about themselves to be deleted.


So, if you you have read this far I am sure you understand that on the internet these two things are like arch rivals.
The more you try to hide and suppress something on the internet, the more it will pop up everywhere and more people will get to know about it. "The Internet never forgets!"

Its easily evident from what happened after the European Commission, in 2012 published plans for a "right to be forgotten" law, allowing people to request that data about themselves to be deleted.
The judgement stresses that the rights of the individual are paramount when it comes to their control over their personal data. The ruling came after Mario Costeja Gonzalez complained that a search of his name in Google brought up newspaper articles from 16 years ago about a sale of property to recover money he owed.

And today everyone knows about Mario Costeja Gonzalez's "sale of property to recover money he owed" , how ironic.

ISIS

I had previously written and entire blog post on ISIS, but for all those people who have no clue-
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria  is a Sunni jihadist group in the Middle East. In its self-proclaimed status as a caliphate, it claims religious authority over all Muslims across the world.
In short they are the most extreme terrorist group out there.
They have been recruiting people from UK, UK, Europe and even Asia.
They have been tweeting using different twitter #hashtags and also posting videos on YouTube to spread their propaganda so that more orthodox and extremists and people who are unaware of the truth get brainwashed and join them.

Recently they have beheaded two Americans journalists(James Foley on 19th August and Steven Sotloff on 2nd September) and just last night a Scottish aid worker (David Haines) who was working in Syria who was providing medicines to the people affected by the ongoing civil unrest.
All the videos of the beheading were uploading to YouTube in all cases and tweeted about on Twitter.

It sounds simple enough that YouTube should take down videos and Twitter should block hashtags and accounts instigated by the same groups. In both cases such speech is an incitement to violence, and hence illegal under British law. Having started as places for people to upload dating videos (YouTube) or let friends know what they are doing (Twitter), both networks have been thrown into the complex world of geopolitics, mixed with arguments over freedom of speech.

The fact that Isis fighters and would-be jihadists are digital natives who have grown up with cameraphones and internet access means that social networks are the first, rather than the last, place they look to spread their message.

Google and Twitter are happy to comply with the law (even share our private data with the government when required just as Snowden told us). Their problem, though, is that their systems are not set up to stop those videos, hashtags and accounts getting online – so taking them offline has become a game of "whack-a-mole", where no sooner have they been removed from one part of the site than they pop up at others. And the "Streisand effect" comes to play.

TheFappening

"The day the Internet Stood Still..... and fapped."
On 4chan an individual started posting private hacked pictures and videos of more than 20+ actresses including Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande, Victoria Justice and many others. And soon people started tweeting pictures of these celebs on twitter, on reddit #TheFappening subreddit started and all the pictures and videos were being methodically compiled and soon all were getting uploaded to torrents. No matter where you go on the internet for example YouTube and searched for something like "best worldcup penalty shots"- the top comment would be "What are you doing here? #TheFappening is here."

And not even a day had passed lawsuits from the Hollywood lawyers started! celebrity.tumblr.com was taken down for hosting and publishing these pictures. The subreddit was banned. Google was asked to take down all photos from their search results... But we all know that that's impossible.
Twitter was banning people are random for tweeting to Jennifer Lawrence that her nude pics are amazing. And the drama continued with the people uploading all pictures and files to torrents and making new blogs and uploading them to different image sharing sites. Thousands of DMCA notices are still continuing. But we all know its no use.

Google and Twitter trying to get rid of ISIS Propaganda & TheFappening 

"The Internet Knows"

Long live... freedom of speech and Net Neutrality.