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[jr0124]

XM radio suspended Opie and Anthony on Tuesday afternoon in order to "teach them a lesson". Please show up to support the boys or simply to support free speech.

Fans and supporters are gathering at CBS studios on 57th Street between 5th & 6th in New York City Thursday and Friday morning from 6am-9am.

Alos, please consider joining People Against

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[elmo_iscariot]

If that's not corporate censorship, what is?

A sign that O&A should reevaluate who they do business with?

I don't honestly give a damn about "corporate censorship". If I publish a radio show, or a newspaper, or a newsletter, I decide what goes in it. If I choose not to publish fanatic right-wing hatemongering, that's my prerogative. Choosing whose voice I amplify is no more immoral than you deciding which side of a protest rally you'll lent your megaphone to. It meets the strict definition of "censorship" ("The act, process, or practice of [examining and expurgating]"--AHD), but calling it that is a misuse of a loaded term. China's restrictions of Internet content, Cuba's near-banning of the Internet, and South Korea's... Well, everything... Those are examples of censorship. An individual, company, or corporation deciding that it doesn't want to publish material that offends a vocal group of people? Big deal. O&A can go elsewhere, and you can go elsewhere.

Maybe when there were only a handful of broadcast TV stations and radio stations servicing a given area there could've been a practical concern, since it could've been de facto impossible to "go elsewhere", but in this era of blogs and podcasts, the temporary suspension of a pair of shock-jocks from one specific media venue is hardly a blow to freedom of speech.