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The Technology Liberation Front » Archive » Sinclair Backs Down; National Catastrophe Avoided
Started by TLF · 3 months ago
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4 years ago
I don't understand your objections. If the market for this film really exists, then you can see it/buy it with ease commensurate with the demand, yes? Hell, the filmmakers can send you a DVD gratis if they want to. Your vacuous cries of "censorship" remind one of the Monty Python & The Holy Grail peasant: "Help, help! I'm being oppresssed!"
Maybe what happened here is that Sinclair -- a profit-oriented business -- made a stupid business decision that blew up in their faces when advertisers indicated a disinclination to be associated with the station owners' political POV. Are you suggesting that instead a) the advertisers should not be able to exercise such judgment about where & how to spend their money, or that b) Sinclair could not have gone ahead and, the loss of revenue notwithstanding, shown the film as a matter of principle?
I just love it that the market is always right, except when it disagrees with you.