So that "Kony 2012"
video this week became the most viral video in history, hitting 100 million
views in six days, Mashable says.
Compared to how long it took other famous Web videos to reach that many views,
Kony 2012 makes the "Laughing Baby" just look
sad. There's nothing laughable about Joseph Kony, of course, Uganda's longtime
horrific warlord whose violent LRA group had kidnapped kids and forced them into
child soldiery. Hard to imagine there would be backlash against spreading the
word on that, but hang on. Says Slate: "Some critics say that the
film glossed over the context of the conflict and unfairly focuses on the LRA,
while other groups in the region have used similarly atrocious tactics. Others,
meanwhile, have
criticized the nonprofit for spending only 30 percent of its proceeds to help
Uganda's children." The
Nation suggested the viral craze was getting ridiculous: "If you are
looking for the precise moment when the
viral campaign against Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony turned to farce, it was
probably at 6:21 pm on Friday March 9. 'Have you heard of this guy Joseph
Kony?,' asked the rapper-turned-reality-star Vanilla Ice, in a tweet from
Dallas. 'America needs to send in the hero's that killed Bin Laden and take this
killer out.'" Well, if you reach 100 million people, some won't be Winston
Churchill
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