"They're demanding, but nobody cares about their demands." Except politicians whose morals and wants stretch in proportion to the contributions they receive.

"They're demanding, but nobody cares about their demands." Except politicians whose morals and wants stretch in proportion to the contributions they receive. "Basically, now is not time for the media companies to demand anything." That's not the point I'm trying to make. The point is that this sort of "vandalism" is going to change the whole landscape, everything you just described. Perhaps now is not the time for media companies to demand anything -- but if you take the freedom of today's Internet for granted, sooner or later this sort of behaviour is going to come back and bite us all on the ass. It could progress such that if censorship fails, they could always go down the China route and use plain old-fashioned fear.