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Techdirt is reporting in a follow up to their 2006 story about how the Los Angeles wing of the Boy Scouts of America had started offering an MPAA-supported patch in "respecting copyright," in which "respecting copyright" was actually respecting the MPAA's industry slanted view of copyright. Now it appears that the Girl Scouts are finally catching up. The Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation has helped create a special new "IP patch" for the Girl Scouts (PDF).
As the articles notes in its conclusion, there is also an "Energy Conservation" badge sponsored by an oil company so it appears that if you have a powerful enough industry, you can now push propaganda on kids in the form of "merit badges".
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(Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Friday March 28 2014, @09:15AM
Way back when I was in Boy Scouts (I made it to Eagle), it was more about camping, learning to tie knots, and leatherworking and such. I can't see how any of that can be considered indoctrination into a corporate world - unless it was a ploy by camping equipment manufacturers. But it's been decades since I had any contact with scouting, so I suppose things may have changed significantly.