AVN ran the story:
Conservatives Demand to See Comcast’s Revenue From Porn
—‘The ususal suspects want to derail the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal merger unless Comcast promises to ‘not use the public airwaves to distribute pornographic material’
As I was reading the story, I had to ask myself, WTF? It completely doesn’t make sense to me. Maybe I am just a dumb blonde, but what the hell do the two have to do with each other. Shouldn’t it be either one or the other, and not both? Either make your profits form porn public or don’t air pornographic material.
“The Commission should move swiftly to impose a condition on the merger that Comcast make its profits on adult entertainment public. It should also force Comcast to stipulate that it absolutely will not use the public airwaves to distribute pornographic material. Without such conditions, the Commission should not approve a transaction which transfers so many broadcast licenses.
I can kinda understand the whole “let me see your profits” from a company whose board of directors think that porn is the devil. That way they can use the profits as an excuse to ban the porn by making up some excuse that it is not profitable enough or something along those lines, but why do you care what the profits are if you are not going to allow them to air porn if the merger happens. Is it just me or does this just completely not make any sense what-so-ever? If you are not going to let them continue to air porn, what the fuck do you care what their profits were? Can someone please shed some light on this for me?
Of course I think the whole business is a bunch of church going SOB’s that have nothing better to do than to step all over our first amendment rights, and if this merger happens I think not only will the Comcast customer loose, so will the company in general. It is nothing to switch to another provider that airs porn on its airwaves such as Direct TV and Dish Network. So not only does the company loose all the money from pay-per-view porn, it will undoubtedly loose customers, too. But hey, their lose will be the other providers gain.