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XM Satellite Radio Backlash
mrchubbs writes "Sponsors and subscribers to XM Radio are protesting the decision by XM management to suspend the Opie and Anthony show for comments made on an uncensored channel. Subscribers are canceling subscriptions — some estimate that between 20,000 and 40,000 have cancelled. Some are even smashing their radios in protest. Sponsors are pulling ads. Also, there is some evidence of XM not honoring cancellation requests, forcing multiple calls to finally get accounts canceled." Of course this dispute isn't a free-speech issue. "Free speech" refers to a prohibition on censorship by the government; XM is free to do as it wishes with the content it broadcasts, within the law.
Cool, they canceled Opie & Anthony. I don't listen to talk radio. It's useless to me. I'm serious -- maybe they can shove bandwidth back towards music channels.
Too bad they can't dump Oprah, as well, and a bunch of other stuff.
Get off my launchpad!
Now why can't people start to protest Microsoft on a similar scale?
OSx86 FTW
Of course, they're sooo with it. Like when they gave "Jethro Tull" a Grammy for "Best Heavy Metal Album" or something like that.
That was great, for the simple reason that it really annoyed Metallica fans, who tended to be annoying.
Also, Jethro Tull kicks ass. It's not like they gave a grammy to one of those fake heavy-metal-wannabe hair bands or something. And the relevant album really kind of was heavy metal, if their whole body of work isn't.
At this point, I'm reminded of that Imus guy, or whatever his name is. That white trash old conservative radio host that made all those comments about some black girls basketball team.
But, had he been black, his comments would've been viewed as amusing.
Don't people have anything better to do in this country than be offended at what other people say? I got over that in high school.
Yes, the Dixie chicks are the premiere military strategists of our age. Maybe you should put them in charge of your military. They can organize the military to hold hands and sing songs, and surely that will stop religious maniacs from crashing airliners into your buildings.
I hope you too die a painful death for supporting a piece of shit simply because he sports a title. If we can't critique an awful president during a war he lied to start, we could be at war forever. Here's to hoping someone you care about dies because of the Iraq invasion! Cheers, douchebag!
Blar.
Interesting. It seems we are not without hope. Your self description shows us your an uninformed freak and not the norm.
And you are hopelessly lost when it comes to what makes this country great. It isn't anything the country has done but what people have done in it. It you can't seem to get anything going, it is your own fault.
There is an old adage about life giving you lemons, you make lemonade. You need to look into that. then you need to pull your head out of your ass.