Comments on: Sinclair Backs Down; National Catastrophe Avoided http://techliberation.com/2004/10/20/sinclair-backs-down-national-catastrophe-avoided/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Thu, 24 May 2012 10:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://techliberation.com/2004/10/20/sinclair-backs-down-national-catastrophe-avoided/comment-page-1/#comment-51999 Anonymous Thu, 21 Oct 2004 23:02:10 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/10/20/sinclair-backs-down-national-catastrophe-avoided/#comment-51999 <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> 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.

]]> By: Anonymous http://techliberation.com/2004/10/20/sinclair-backs-down-national-catastrophe-avoided/comment-page-1/#comment-30770 Anonymous Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:02:10 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/10/20/sinclair-backs-down-national-catastrophe-avoided/#comment-30770 <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!" </p> <p> 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? </p> <p> I just love it that the market is always right, except when it disagrees with you.</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!”

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.

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