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Newsweek Op-Ed
"No talk show host or presidential debate will rewrite history, and we will make certain of that."
Newsweek Op-Ed
"No talk show host or presidential debate will rewrite history, and we will make certain of that."
Second Video, Ellen DeGeneres and unerasing Bush's Katrina legacy
Now we're global, with Al Jazeera interviewing me about the videos.
"The simplest ideas can have the biggest impact."
https://twitter.com/rafaelshimunov/status/1183796922945064964
Artists like Corey Brickley are creating amazing illustrations from the frame of the video where Ellen DeGeneres lines up with Bush's Iraqi torture survivor.
https://twitter.com/velvetundergrad/status/1183532345606971392
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
"It’s legitimately amazing that famous people and companies keep doing this. They keep using the DMCA to take down criticism, which always makes them look even worse than they did when the criticism was allowed to be seen."
https://www.eff.org/takedowns/strange-case-ellen-degeneres-george-w-bush-and-very-bad-takedown
Popula (interview)
"I had to censor myself, ironically, because if I’d chosen those images, they wouldn’t have been seen: Modern images of the aftereffects, of children being born today, with fatal deformities and things like that, because of the war."
Exclaim (Canada)
Someone Added Iraq War Images to Ellen's George W. Bush Defence and the video continues to spread despite takedown notices
http://exclaim.ca/film/article/someone_added_iraq_war_images_to_ellens_george_w_bush_defence
Pink News (UK)
Shimunov explained: “Users with large and small followings refused to allow Iraqis to be erased this way, and have collectively put their accounts at risk in order to protest censorship.
BuzzFeed News
"As illustrated by the A-list stars applauding Ellen DeGeneres’s friendship with George W. Bush and a “beautiful” video of Brandt Jean forgiving his brother’s killer, the most privileged among us too often prioritize positivity over justice."
"It’s not surprising, then, that Ellen’s monologue about Bush reduced her critics to a mob of angry Twitter users, as if a bunch of regular people professing their sincere concerns were grousing and griping for the hell of it. (Just a bunch of haters!) It appears as if Ellen’s staffers have been aggressively submitting copyright claims on social media in an attempt to kill a satirical video by Twitter user @rafaelshimunov, who edited Ellen’s monologue to include grisly footage of torture and human suffering during the Iraq War."
LGBTQ Nation
Ellen is trying to silence an activist who called out her support of George Bush
Fast Company
"No sooner did Shimunov’s video hit the internet on Tuesday afternoon than mass takedown notices began to appear, with claims of copyright infringement. And as history has proven time and time again, the more that somebody litigiously tries to prevent some devastating video from being seen, the more interest anyone has in it."
BoingBoing
"Devastating remix of Ellen's lecture on befriending George W. Bush disappears after copyright takedown ... then reappears in force"
https://boingboing.net/2019/10/09/ellens-issues-copyright-take.html
The Daily Dot
"An edited version of Ellen DeGeneres defending her friendship with George W. Bush is exploding in popularity online. The video shows DeGeneres’ unedited speech while a slideshow of the horrors from the Iraq War plays on the screen behind her. One standout moment occurs at the 1:05 mark of the video where DeGeneres matches the body language of an Abu Ghraib prisoner being tortured in an image behind her. "
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/ellen-degeneres-george-w-bush-iraq-war-edit/
Business Insider Article on this campaign
Ellen DeGeneres is trying to block a video slamming her controversial friendship with George W. Bush, but it's gone viral https://www.businessinsider.com/ellen-degeneres-video-goes-viral-despite-copyright-takedown-2019-10
"A video satirizing Ellen DeGeneres' defense of her friendship with former US President George W. Bush by superimposing her over Iraq War imagery has gone viral after DeGeneres' team got it booted off Twitter over copyright infringement."