http://tlf.disqus.com/The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.enThu, 21 Oct 2004 22:02:10 -0000http://techliberation.com/2004/10/20/sinclair-backs-down-national-catastrophe-avoided/#comment-1443103<p>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!"<br></p><p><br>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?<br></p><p><br>I just love it that the market is always right, except when it disagrees with you.</p>AnonymousThu, 21 Oct 2004 22:02:10 -0000