This video 1) first portrays Hitler as anti-technology Luddite ("I want all Internet access shut down immediately"), and then 2) in a sudden turn shows him as alternative media protagonist in favour of "critical commons" for "educating the world for free" and making available "open educational resources". 1) Goebbels considered the radio the most important medium for, as he said, "politically education", but one should better say for ideologically manipulating the people. "Zeitungswissenschaft" (journalism studies) was an important field of Nazi academia. The mass production of "Volksempf?nger" radio receivers was the Nazis' attempt to make available radio receivers to all families in the "Third Reich" in order to expose them to Nazi propaganda. This shows that the Nazis were not at all Luddites and anti-technology. 2) Brecht once wrote that the radio would be the most powerful medium if receivers would also be enabled to be senders. The Volksempf?nger only had one central channel, listening to "enemy stations" (Feindsender), as BBC and other stations were called by the Nazis, was prohibited and resulted in many cases in severe jail sentences or even the death penalty. This shows that the Nazis did not share Brecht's vision of open media, but to the contrary only were interested in completely centralized mass media that they installed and defended with the help of repression and violence. Therefore also the analogy of Hitler/the Nazis and open media/creative commons is inadequate. The mission of "Critical Commons" is: "At the heart of Critical Commons is an online tool for viewing, tagging, sharing, annotating and curating media within the guidelines established by a given community. Our goal is to build open, informed communities around media-based teaching, learning and creativity, both inside and outside of formal educational environments" (http://criticalcommons.org/about-us) The video is making two false analogies. The Nazis would today probably support Internet censorship, Internet surveillance, etc. And actual Nazi groups are trying to use the Internet for their own propaganda, but most of these sites work in a traditional way without much employment of "social media" and "web 2.0". One can argue if this video is funny or distasteful - these are unnecessary moral discussions, but one thing is for sure: the clip is unintelligent. -- - - - Priv.-Doz. Dr. Christian Fuchs Associate Professor ICT&S Center University of Salzburg Sigmund Haffner Gasse 18 5020 Salzburg Austria christian.fuchs@sbg.ac.at Phone +43 662 8044 4823 Personal Website: http://fuchs.uti.at Editor of tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-Operation | Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society http://www.triple-c.at Fuchs, Christian. 2008. Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. New York: Routledge. http://fuchs.uti.at/?page_id=40