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Re: Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit

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Post by vkou »

rogerrogerr wrote: post #18
c420 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To those that are interpreting his comments in a certain way, the implication that Robinson is maga is highly offensive and textbook "misinformation". Edit: there's clearly several ways to interpret what he said. I'm not making any kind of argument here, just answering op's question.

Not so much offensive, as utterly puzzling given the information we had on him by Monday night. Not a fan of Trump or Jimmy, and I don’t think this is a proportional or good response. I’m pretty stunned that there was actually momentum enough to take him off the air. I also don’t understand why he left that little dig in his monologue.

> I’m pretty stunned that there was actually momentum enough to take him off the air.

Have you not been paying attention to where rhetoric in this country has gone in the past 8 months? The first amendment is dead, the great leader is publically calling for his critics to lose their broadcast licenses, and the new SOP is for the government to squeeze the shit out of anyone who doesn't toe the line. (Which is an ever-shrinking group of people.)

Be it with SLAPP suits, or by holding merger approvals, or by just threatening witch-hunts.

This is what 48% of the electorate wanted, and, well, it's what they've delivered.

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Meanwhile, in Fox land, Brian Kilmeade was publically calling for mass-murder of the mentally ill the other day. For some strange reason, neither Trump nor the FCC, nor all the people outraged about political violence are making a peep about that.

Re: Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit

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Post by kashunstva »

rogerrogerr wrote: post #18
c420 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To those that are interpreting his comments in a certain way, the implication that Robinson is maga is highly offensive and textbook "misinformation". Edit: there's clearly several ways to interpret what he said. I'm not making any kind of argument here, just answering op's question.

Not so much offensive, as utterly puzzling given the information we had on him by Monday night. Not a fan of Trump or Jimmy, and I don’t think this is a proportional or good response. I’m pretty stunned that there was actually momentum enough to take him off the air. I also don’t understand why he left that little dig in his monologue.

> I’m pretty stunned that there was actually momentum enough to take him off the air.

Very little was needed. The U.S. president had already ominously threatened Kimmel and other late night hosts the day after Colbert was canceled, weeks before the shooting.

I thought Kimmel was hilarious; but as they say, there’s no accounting for taste.

The most ridiculous thing about this is that the world doesn’t cleave neatly into “radical left lunatics” and the righteous real Americans. I still can’t tell what the murderer was. Whatever that was, he acted on his own impulses - ones that are not broadly celebrated, irrespective of claims to the contrary.

Re: Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit

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Post by skatingaway »

gibspaulding wrote: post #28
pleasecloselid wrote: post #17

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Have you tried using a VPN? I installed the free ProtonVPN I got with protonmail and half the internet stops working. VPNs look like bots with high exit traffic so they are blocked. Plus countries are cracking down on exit nodes.

As long as there’s a tpb mirror in the working half the point stands.

The previous poster said their VPN doesn’t work. How exactly does “the point stand” with actual evidence that it doesn’t?

Re: Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit

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Post by OutOfHere »

epistasis wrote: post #35
djohnston wrote: post #22

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I suspect they were looking for an excuse to axe and found one. It was all milquetoast, and that entire format of television is dead and the networks know they need to pivot somewhere.

The FCC chair threatening your broadcast license is a pretty good "excuse". There wasn't a public outcry, it was a government outcry along with threats along multiple lines of leverage.

> The FCC chair threatening your broadcast license

That's a clear violation of the First Amendment.

Re: Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit

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Post by bluGill »

epistasis wrote: post #35
djohnston wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect they were looking for an excuse to axe and found one. It was all milquetoast, and that entire format of television is dead and the networks know they need to pivot somewhere.

The FCC chair threatening your broadcast license is a pretty good "excuse". There wasn't a public outcry, it was a government outcry along with threats along multiple lines of leverage.

I find it hard to take that threat seriously. There would be blood on the street - real blood - americans won't stand for it. (Some will of course but enough would not that the fcc would blink)

Re: Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit

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Post by kashunstva »

gruez wrote: post #19
c420 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To those that are interpreting his comments in a certain way, the implication that Robinson is maga is highly offensive and textbook "misinformation". Edit: there's clearly several ways to interpret what he said. I'm not making any kind of argument here, just answering op's question.

You don't exactly need to be MAGA to think that Kimmel's remarks were incorrect. From the economist: >After the assassination Jimmy Kimmel, a comedian on abc, suggested erroneously that Kirk had been killed by a maga fan. Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates broadcasters, threatened consequences: “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.” Within hours abc took Mr Kimmel…

Now fact-check Fox News.

Let’s just say that the alleged shooter’s political philosophies are likely complex and are yet to be fully understood.

Re: Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit

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Post by thierrydamiba »

AndyKelley wrote: post #16
ethagnawl wrote: post #4

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It's possible but I think Hanlon's Razor is more likely. I saw this happen myself and the form submission was successful on the second attempt. I just don't think they had the capacity to handle this surge of traffic to this endpoint/service.

It can be a mixture of both. It's extremely easy to Cover Your Ass while intentionally dragging your feet when a bug works in your favor. The manager simply has to decide that other tasks are higher priority.

Call it HN’s rule: Never attribute to incompetence what can be attributed to malice

Re: Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit

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Post by derefr »

gruez wrote: post #27
djohnston wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect they were looking for an excuse to axe and found one. It was all milquetoast, and that entire format of television is dead and the networks know they need to pivot somewhere.

>It was all milquetoast, ??? It was a very obvious dig at the president. There's still not good justification for the government to step in, but claiming it's "milquetoast" is baffling.

Digs directed at the President or the administration are and always have been well within the Overton window in American journalism, and previous Presidents and administrations have just seen them as a fact of life and brushed them off.

Thus “milquetoast”: an implication that any reaction to this is, objectively, an overreaction.

That the current President is a habitual over-reactor does not change that fact. It just means that you can paradoxically be taking a heterodox / outré stance by saying objectively milquetoast things.

Re: Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit

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Post by epistasis »

OutOfHere wrote: post #44
epistasis wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The FCC chair threatening your broadcast license is a pretty good "excuse". There wasn't a public outcry, it was a government outcry along with threats along multiple lines of leverage.

> The FCC chair threatening your broadcast license That's a clear violation of the First Amendment.

Yep! And he wrote the whole chapter in Project 2025 outlining that he would do exactly this, in advance of taking the job. Who is going to stop him? The Supreme Court? Not likely.
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