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weberer 5 days ago

That's a really awkward analogy. A better one would be: Would you buy an album with all the curse words bleeped out? A lot of people would, but others would prefer the uncensored version.

kenjackson 5 days ago | parent [-]

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.

lotsoweiners 5 days ago | parent [-]

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.

kenjackson 4 days ago | parent [-]

Is there anything offensive that Home Depot shouldn’t carry? Or should they carry everything?