Mouseketools
Jan 7th, 2007 at 10:36 am by Dr. S
[Crossposted at Redsoxville.]Â
Short version: A blogger, Spocko, shares hate speech at San Francisco radio station KSFO with the station’s advertisers. Some advertisers pull their ads, so lawyers from the station’s parent company, a little outfit called The Walt Disney Company, got involved, and this happened.
But Tuesday, Spocko’s Internet service provider, 1&1 Internet, pulled the plug on the blog–a move prompted by a Dec. 22 cease-and-desist letter from ABC Radio claiming that material on Spocko’s Brain violated Disney’s copyright.
Firedoglake has a more detailed summary of the situation.
A fun, useful thing to do on a lazy Sunday morning (before the playoff games start) would be to link to mp3s of the hate speech in question.
Have a nice day.
Disney Shuts Down Dissent
A blogger, Spocko, shares hate speech at San Francisco radio station KSFO with the station’s advertisers. Some advertisers pull their ads, so lawyers from the station’s parent company, a little outfit called The Walt Disney company, got involved, …
spocko is back up again, but i think w/o all the ksfo stuff. great job by him, actually getting disney to notice by having major advertisers pull out.