On: Why I Hope Congress Never Watches “Blackhat”

[mhurron]

If Congress is making laws and policy based on movies, we have a bigger problem then which movies they base it on.

[djent → mhurron]

From the article: Congress passed the original CFAA in 1984 in direct response to the seminal hacker flick Wargames.

[IgorPartola → mhurron]

I don't know, if they watched Inconvenient Truth, it might benefit some of the knuckleheads there. Or 12 Years a Slave. Or even Lincoln.

[lifeisstillgood → IgorPartola]

Well the Congressional Cinema Club could put on some special showings and ask for sponsorship

- Car Manufacturers Lobby: Bullit

- Anti Car Lobby: Duel

- Trans-Atlantic Airlines Lobby : Titanic

- Construction Lobby: Bridge over the River Kwai

- Elon Musk : Iron Man 1 or 3 (but not 2)

- The Hamptons Tourist Board: The wicker man

- The Banjo Players association of America: Deliverance

- Tesla Car Showrooms: Death of a salesman

- Climate Change Deniers Lobby: Some Like It Hot

- Liberal Atheists for a kinder America: Any Harry Potter

[godkingjim → lifeisstillgood]

"The Hamptons Tourist Board: The wicker man"

I'm curious; what you mean by this one?

[anigbrowl → godkingjim]

I laughed hard at this one! The Hamptons is basically a vacation destination in eastern New York state for very very wealthy people, who don't want any riff-raff cluttering up their picturesque vacation views. 'The Wicker Man' is a film (+ a remake) about a police officer who goes to investigate a crime in a remote idyll where everyone knows everyone else and runs into...problems. Translation: let's ensure that the 'wrong' people stay away.

[lifeisstillgood → anigbrowl]

Yeah, did not sleep well for a week after watching that one :-)

[omnibrain → mhurron]

They probably watched Reefer Madness back in the day...