Cops prove how stupid the SMART Act is

Blasting Disney tunes as a way to foil accountability.

3 min readApr 7, 2022

The three wise monkeys; the faces of hear- and see-no-evil have been replaced with the glowing red eye of HAL9000; the face of speak-no-evil has been replaced with Mickey Mouse. Behind the monkeys is a police car with its lights on. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en Japanexperterna.se (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/japanexperterna/15251188384/ CC BY-SA 2.0: https://creativeco

Remember back in Feb ’21, when cops in Beverly Hills were caught blaring Taylor Swift songs to prevent videos of their misconduct from being posted to social media by triggering copyright filters?

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/10/duke-sucks/#bhpd

Cops prove how stupid the SMART Act is

Blasting Disney tunes as a way to foil accountability.

Written by Cory Doctorow