+++ON THE DANGER OF SO-CALLED 'FAMILY-FRIENDLY FILM FANEDITS'
OR as they're called a 'DigModiFicaTion'+++
One of our primary goals is to encourage the first amendment and free speech as it is expressed through art. However, the MPAA and the FCC and the MAGA GOP movement have found unconstitutional loopholes and subversive practices aimed at suppressing free speech. Mostly in their beef at what they claim is a liberal Hollywood trying to damage the family. The truth is they do not like movies or stories that expose the corruption of powerful individuals or companies. And the racism and prejudice of the far-right will often object to depiction of race, sex, gender and religion in popular art. Often times they are simply upset that America isn't a Xtian fundamentalist theocracy. So attacking movies and music on the basis of sex, language and violence is a tired age old Puritanical practice of trying to impose Xtian religious values under the dishonest scheme of trying to protect children from objectionable content. Have you read the Bible?!?! It's filled with murder, sex, violence and climaxes with a half-naked man nailed to a slab of wood to bleed to death.
The most recent lame example of this anti-free speech trend is a fan editing phenomena dishonestly called "family film editing".
The (fail) trolls who push this will dishonestly claim that THEY themselves are being censored for not having the right to pirate these films and remove content they deem unfit for families without consent of those who own the copyright to the art. Not so fast... while fanediting IS a dark art that unfortunately can lead to pirating film content, often filmmakers and studios will look the other way, and even change existing versions of their own films when inspired by faneditors. Classic examples are movies like "Waterworld", or director Brian DePalma who was impressed by the work of fan editors. However, these artists are united AGAINST the act of censoring their movies for what is perceived to be objectionable content, and have gone on record saying as much, and initiated litigation towards that end.
Free speech does have limitations. You can't yell fire in a crowded theater. You can't engage in hate speech. Also, what is objectionable is in the eye of the beholder. What if someone finds "gay" relationships to be in violation of their religious faith? Does that mean it would be okay to remove the romantic plot of "Brokeback Mountain" to make it more family friendly for the children? If someone objected to the depiction of an inter-racial marriage in the movie "There's Something About Mary" would people feel comfortable with the re-editing of the opening scenes in that film to make the couple seem like good friends instead of husband and wife? It's a slippery slope. And so while we shouldn't prohibit the creation of "family film edits" we are certainly within our rights to call out "family film editors" using the same first amendment rights that protect the "family editors" to engage in their anti-social act of promoting the censorship of popular art.
Family 'friendly' film-editing... also known as "DigModiFicatTion" can be generally-defined as:
DigModiFicaTion djed-mod·i·fi·ca·tion /ˌdjedmädəfəˈkāSH(ə)n/ noun (definition) The practice of censoring a film, song, or other form of content—typically focusing on sex, language, and simulated violence—in order to subtly advance a fascist agenda that is anti-first amendment, under the pretense and scam that it is more "family friendly" or suitable for young audiences. This movement has its roots in far-right and fundamentalist Xtian ideologies and is largely a part of a larger effort to undermine the inherent free speech protections provided by the US Constitution's first amendment and to undermine, harass, and destabilize the Hollywood entertainment industry.
(used in a sentence) "By removing explicit sexual elements from bootleg versions of Titanic without the studios' or the creators' permission, a conservative Xtian video store in Utah was participating in the digmodification of the film."
Clearly 'DigModiFicaTion' enjoys personal donations.
To understand what you are dealing with, you have basically run into the junior high clique of adult-children 'faneditors' that more or less ruined the fanedit.org vibe... "DigModiFicaTion" is a sociopathic putz & cringemix of the Principal from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" ...
...combined with that of the tone-deaf hater Lt.Stephen Hauk. [Fun-fact: Played exquisitely for maximum cringe by late great actor Bruno Kirby whose performance alone was the inspiration for actor Steve Carell when doing "The Office".]
In a final death rattle of sorts, ‘DigModiFicaTion’ even brought in an enabler to help him in a desperate Hail Mary Pass of sorts to stop the bleeding. With 'a good cop/bad cop act' reminiscent of Biff Tannen from "Back to the Future" (in the 'sad' carwash phase of his life).
Their latest quixotic meltdown on reddit.com is essentially going for 'death my admin' in his triggered state. It's a cosmic tantrum with the Universe, since they are so upset that they can't be the wannabe-alpha in the situation they will shake their fists at the heavens. With the kind of splashy satisfying implosion that can only succeed to incriminate you with a strict ban-happy online forum such as Reddit (since the subreddits are still beholden to the clandestine mysterious groups of admins with the true power over our fates on their antiquated platform). Basically, if 'DigModiFicaTion' and his enabler 'BusterFriendly' and their small incel clique of junior high school adult-children can't have their way, and they can't undo loss of control over the situation, rather than just suck it up and move on will try 'to blow it up if they could', whatever they think they are blowing up, even if they only succeed in blowing themselves up.
Start with knowledge. That saying, knowledge is power?
A good read no how to deal with garden variety sociopaths
like 'DigModiFicaTion' and their enablers like 'BusterFriendly'
is the book "The Sociopath Next Door".
The tips from that book alone, using techniques like gray-rocking, outlandish squid-like smokescreens of misinformation about one's self as bait to draw out the covert abusers as if trying to smoke out the invisible man with funny lies about one's own success or popularity. This is mainly the reason why I have been so successful and smoking them out, and getting them to incriminate with behavior that not only comes with the high risk of being suspended by their coveted Internet forums but has already cost 'DigModiFicaTion' his reputation with reddit (i.e.after being found by the sitewide admins to have violated their rules).
