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Originally posted by MrPopup
lol...sure he does.
i guess you dont understand the wider implications?
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What wider implications? Everyone has always has had this right in the US and it's exercised all the time.
Hell, this stuff has been there right from the beginning. Consider the the Alien and Sedition Acts that became LAW as far back as 1798. A crisis, whether real or imagined, causes protectionist actions and legislation.
What do the Patriot Act, the Alien and Sedition Acts, Lincoln' suspension of habeas corpus, the Sedition and Espionage Acts, the Red Scare, the McCarran Act, McCarthyism, and Japanese internment have in common? Reponse to a crisis.
You'll notice all the time that sometimes 10% of the people will be vocal enough to cause some organization to make a decision that otherwise they would have not. That's a choice the company makes in response to what they feel is a danger. Imagine if he perceives that 10% of this radio audience feels so strongly about this that they would leave. What's his profit margin?Can he afford that? What should he do?
If you own a radio station, you have every right to play or not play an artist for whatever reason you wish including the personal views of the artist. Maybe the guy only wants to play "Patriotic Country". That's his right. What do you want to do? Take away his freedom to do so?
You should worry when the government tries to take that away from you.