Free Speech Revolution Interview With Mike South
by M. Dickinson
1) How long have you been in the industry? How did you get started?
I started in 1993 because I got tired of being a rocket scientist.
2) Are you concerned with the rights of the adult industry to make and produce movies/web clips?
Technically the adult industry doesn’t have any rights, people have rights and in that sense I am concerned that anyone would be denied the right to produce whatever they wanted, so long as nobody’s life, liberty or property is stolen in the process.
3) How has the current recession impacted online sales? Are things are bad as everyone is reporting?
They are probably worse than is being reported in most respects. I think we are on the brink of a fundamental change in how our industry operates on almost every level.
4) How do you feel about piracy and the wide availability of free adult content online? Will it ultimately help or hurt the industry?
Property is property and when you steal my property you are encroaching on my property rights, but that’s just how it relates to my property, my content. If you look at the industry as a whole, the amount of product we produced from 95 till now every year, and the value we attached to that property (we sold DVDs for a dollar) does it surprise anyone that we made no real efforts to protect that property? So it ends up for free all over the internet and usenet and we don’t assign enough value to it to even try to stop piracy until its way past too late.
It has already hurt much of the industry, but in the long run, the parts of the industry that survive it will become more profitable and will have way less competition.
5) What do you think about some of the adult content that pushes the limit? Stuff like Max Hardcore, JM Productions etc. Are they heroes for pushing the free speech envelope or are they drawing a lot of unwanted attention for everyone else doing so?
This is a complex question; first I don’t believe anyone in this biz should go down for obscenity, plain and simple.
That isn’t the reality though. As such we are like any other prey; our weakness is on the perimeters, the ones standing out from the heard. The people that would want to see us gone attack these weak points. In one way the herd benefits, because the easy targets are picked off first keeping the rest of use relatively safe, but eventually the predator makes its way to a pack leader, in this case, Stagliano. That’s when we all become threatened because we know if they can get him, they can get us. Truth is, for those who would like to see us destroyed, the timing is perfect, the industry is in a financially weakened state.
6) What do you think of the Free Speech Coalition? You have been vocal in disagreeing with much of what they do. How can they improve? What do you think they do? What should they do?
Your statement is making the presumption that they actually “do” something.
Sadly at this point, the FSC is dead and doesn’t even know it yet. At one time it may have been able to be a very powerful force for this industry, but we handled The FSC, and AIM, the same way we handled our product, Half Assed.
We never gave it any value, we never installed accountability its mission changed daily and it was filled with incompetent people, it was nothing more than a money sink, it never had any financial accountability. With the economic downturn in the industry the FSCs funds are dwindling with little hope of recovery. The FSC never knew what they should do, and equally important what they shouldn’t.
Had they been set up with a clear mission, a competent board of directors and full accountability they could potentially have become a huge force for good, not just for the industry but for freedom.
7) What do you think of Obama compared to Bush?
Nothing is either all bad or all good, and both of those points hold true for Obama and for Bush. I think in times past Bush might have been executed for treason. I think Obama is a solid role model for “family values”. But ultimately, as a Libertarian I simply want a government that does what it is supposed to do; protect my life, liberty, property and pursuit of happiness. I’d like leaders that keep their hands out of my pockets and their noses out of my business. They are both miserable failures on that front.
Both parties talk financial responsibility but neither party shows any intention of practicing it.
Why do you think America has such a fascination with sex and with regulating sex?
Any projection of morality is really a projection of fear, anger and guilt. I think most Americans have no fear or anger about sex but there is plenty of guilt to go around, that guilt being fostered by organized religion, who in turn have a lot of fear of sex. It is one of the most powerful drives we have and every religion uses it as a control mechanism.
It seems to me that America is somewhat unique in the civilized world in our efforts to incorporate “God’s law” into national law. Only Islamic fundamentalist countries seems to match us in that respect.
But then European countries have already been down that road haven’t they?
They learned.
9) Do you think the adult industry cares about free speech?
Not nearly as much as they care about fucking each other out of money.
10) What is your website?
11) Anything else you’d like to add:
I’d like to urge everyone who reads this to become active and practicing Libertarians. If this country is going to be saved, it will be Libertarian ideology that saves it.
FreeSpeechRevolution.com was founded by Mike Dickinson. If you want to be involved, offer ideas, or exercise your right to free speech and tell him you hate his ideas please email him at Mike@FreeSpeechRevolution.com
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