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RT reports that:
The incarcerated co-founder of torrent tracker site The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, has found a new way to be a thorn in the back of Swedish authorities holding him. He demands that his religious needs are met with a visit from a Kopimist priest.
Earlier Sunde complained that the Västervik Norra prison, where he is serving a term for assisting in copyright infringement, can't accommodate his vegetarian diet choice, a problem that has already resulted in him losing 5 kg in weight.
The Church of Kopimism (wikipedia) is a peculiar phenomenon. Founded by a group of self-styled internet pirates four years ago, it holds sacred the copying of information and people's right to do it without restrictions. It even declared keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste commands Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V as its holy symbols.
In December 2011, at its third attempt it was officially recognized as a religion in Sweden and now enjoys all the legal protection that goes with the status.
So, is this a case of religious oppression?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 27 2014, @09:02PM
you don't really have that much to gain by not being a dick to your jailers
In the deep south of the USA, there was once a "trustee" system. [wikipedia.org]
There were even "trusty shooters", who remind me of the black overseers in Uncle Tom's Cabin.[1] [google.com]
The movie Cool Hand Luke has some dramatizations of trustees in a "more conventional" system.
To get to be one of the capos|flunkies, you had to knuckle under and kiss a lot of ass.
It wouldn't surprise me if a similar hierarchy still exists unofficially.
Now, there are inmates who make a sport of seeing just how far they can push their jailers.
The retribution that that gets caused the L.A. County jail (staffed by Los Angeles County Sheriffs who would rather not be there) to be required to install a video recording system that covers all areas.
[1] Many people say "Uncle Tom" when they should be saying "Sambo".
Uncle Tom allowed himself to be beaten to death rather than betray his own people; Sambo was a sadist who enjoyed inflicting pain on other black people.
-- gewg_
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Magic Oddball on Monday July 28 2014, @07:29AM
Most people aren't thinking of cruelty when they refer to Uncle Tom, though, so that wouldn't work. To quote Wikipedia:
"The term "Uncle Tom" is used as a derogatory epithet for an excessively subservient person...[or]...who betrays their own group by participating in its oppression, whether or not they do so willingly."
Allowing himself to be beaten to death was a subservient act that reinforced the image of black people as 'naturally' servile -- had he fought back violently, he would have still been killed, but his attackers would have thought twice the next time they considered beating someone like that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 28 2014, @06:57PM
Most people aren't thinking of cruelty when they refer to Uncle Tom
If that was the case, no one would have taken any notice of the book.
Your statement would be correct if it said "Those people who have gotten their "information" second-hand from untrustworthy sources...".
I note here that there are still a lot of people that believe Sadaam had something to do with 9/11.
Wikipedia
....mostly misses the point. Surprise!
Allowing himself to be beaten to death was a subservient act
No. His only other option was to rat out his own people.
What he did was a noble personal sacrifice.
The escaped members of his group continued their journey northward on the Underground Railroad.
-- gewg_