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Originally Posted by Ammi
..it's not really about media witch hunts, any decisions that are made in terms of his employment etc are made with the biggest consideration of money/income and whether employing him would be a bad move because of reduced income and viewers 'switching off or switching over' for the very reasons that freedom is there to do that as well...
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If you put him on a television show right now, viewing figures would go up. They won't put him on television though, because he has said something that offends a particular worldview. Compare that to, for example, someone like Miley Cyrus whose entire career is about offending a different worldview and the prominence she has gained by doing such things even though she probably does cause people to switch off.
The reason employing him would be a bad move is because there would be a witch hunt against any company that did it. This is how censorship works in societies that can't use the power of the state for such things. Yet. An example of this is the witch hunt that followed after it was revealed that Mozilla Chief Executive Brendan Eich had donated to campaigns opposing same sex marriage.