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Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by kenjackson on Thursday August 14, 2025 @11:52PM (#44908445)
That’s a worse analogy. The other guy doesn’t want to use a service because they don’t offer content he wants because people are offended by it. There’s a bunch of clothes not sold at most retailers because it is offensive but you can buy them online directly from the manufacturer.

The analogy you gave would be better if they edited the content to be semantically equivalent but they aren’t. The content just isn’t available.

Now maybe the argument is that you’re paying for the service. In which case it would be like Costco where you have a membership and they definitely don’t carry offensive material.

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Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by lotsoweiners on Friday August 15, 2025 @08:09PM (#44918689)
The biggest problem IMO is that they are picking and choosing what is offensive. I can watch over 100 episodes of very offensive (to someone) episodes of Always Sunny episodes on Hulu. However, they decided 1 concept from 1 scene of a handful of episodes is more offensive than everything else and removed those. I think an analogy could be Home Depot sells a dimming light with 10 settings. Some group of people can’t deal with 2 of those settings so the manufacturer removed 2 of the settings and now everyone gets a lower quality product because of this decision.
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Re:Can't pay, won't pay: streaming services are driving view... by kenjackson on Friday August 15, 2025 @10:32PM (#44919616)
Is there anything offensive that Home Depot shouldn’t carry? Or should they carry everything?
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