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."
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Tuesday April 14 2015, @04:07AM
Awhile ago a fellow soylentil brought up the T.V. show Lexx. In the show you are spread eagle on a slab waiting for the holographic judge prosecutor and defense proclaiming you guilty and begging the mercy of the Divine Shadow.
Lexx is an old show, but holy shit what I thought was far fetched...
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2015, @07:03AM
Lexx is an old show, but holy shit what I thought was far fetched...
But then you can get crossed with a lizard and turned into a sex-slave, so it is all good,
(Posted as AC because I do not want to admit to knowing such things. )