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Forbidden to March, Spanish Activists Stage Protest via Holograms

posted by CoolHand on Tuesday April 14 2015, @12:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the hi-tech-doppelgangers dept.

"gewg_" writes:

Common Dreams reports

After months of massive flesh-and-blood protests against Spain's draconian new "gag law", deemed "the worst cut of rights and freedoms since the Franco regime", enterprising activists held the world's first virtual protest, with thousands of ghost-like figures marching before the Spanish Parliament to prove that holograms will soon have more freedom than people. Almost 100 groups organized the action under the monikers Hologramas Por La Libertad and No Somos Delito--We Are Not A Crime.

The controversial Citizen Safety Law, blasted by human rights groups since its approval in the Spanish Congress, is scheduled to take effect on July 1. Its oppressive measures [are essentially the] government's over-the-top response to widespread anti-austerity, pro-democracy protests known as the 15M. The law's three texts--The Penal Code, the new Anti-Terror Law, and the Law on Citizen Safety--ban and punish with heavy fines and/or jail a vast array of fundamental freedoms of expression and assembly.

[...]To many, the surreal hologram protests perfectly capture the Orwellian quality of the restrictions: In the new Spain, says one protester, "If you are a person, you can not express yourself freely--you can only do (that) if you become a hologram."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday April 14 2015, @02:40AM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 14 2015, @02:40AM (#170167) Homepage Journal

    I didn't know it was even technically feasible to make holograms like the https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CCQvx8OWAAAsEcH.jpg:large [twimg.com]

    in

    http://revolution-news.com/first-hologram-protest-in-history-held-against-spains-gag-law/#post-30322 [revolution-news.com]

    Where are the laser beams? Where's the bean-splitting mirror" Where's the actual hologram the laser is illuminating so interference can create the real image?

    Or has it all been faked somehow?

    -- hendrik

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @03:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @03:06AM (#170177)

    Or has it all been faked somehow?

    Exactly.

    Assuming this is like every other time "hologram" has shown up in popular news the past several years, it's likely a Pepper's Ghost [wikipedia.org]-type rig with a super-bright screen out of scene, being visually overlaid on the scene with a mostly transparent mirror (e.g. 90% transmission, 10% reflection -- can even be unsilvered glass). Or it could even be as simple as a live green-screen overlay on a video feed. But it's definitely not real holography, because that's entirely too boring.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @03:10AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @03:10AM (#170178)

      Also, Tupac isn't dead.

  • (Score: 2) by jimshatt on Tuesday April 14 2015, @08:34AM

    by jimshatt (978) on Tuesday April 14 2015, @08:34AM (#170271) Journal
    It appears to be a projection onto some net that has been spanned: https://twitter.com/Nosomosdelito/status/586624026270965760/photo/1 [twitter.com]