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Why? Why not stop at the legally stipulated punishment proportionate to the crime. Why is there a need to deplatform someone to the same degree, regardless of t
by writepub 8y ago
Why? Why not stop at the legally stipulated punishment proportionate to the crime. Why is there a need to deplatform someone to the same degree, regardless of the gravity of their crime?
- MisterBastahrd 8y agoWell, for one, because we can judge them by the era in which they lived and what the societal standards were at the time. There was no point in time in Bill Cosby's career where drugging a woman to rape her was ever okay. There was no point in time in Louis CK's career where masturbating in front of female subordinates was ever okay. Who knows what went on during Michaelangelo's era?
- AgentME 8y agoNetworks don't necessarily stop reruns just to participate in the punishment of someone. They do it because the audience's perception of someone is changed. Bill Cosby's work and Roseanne weren't directly changed for example, but in their new contexts, many people are uncomfortable now. The networks want to run what people like. If they think people would generally like a different show now over those old reruns, then they're just keeping up with the market. They don't need a court's approval for that.