Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU!FVEST From: FVEST@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU (Floyd Vest) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Cable Censorship Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 13:51:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 25 [26 Jun 91 21:21:24 GMT] dpassage@soda.berkeley.edu (David G. Paschich) wrote: >In article <2153@tamsun.TAMU.EDU> dmq6899@tamsun.TAMU.EDU (Dave >Querin) complains that his cable company is going to drop MTV because >it doesn't like the programming. >What I would do is call the cable company and tell them that you'd >like to cancel your service because of their actions with respect to The cable company here carries local advertisement. If the cable company there does, contact the advertisers. Put the pressure there. College Station *is* Texas A&M. Mention to the advertisers the possibility of a student boycott. You can be much more effective using economic pressure than you can ever hope to be appealling to the cable companies sense of what is right. Don't be belligerent and don't make idle threats. Why punish yourself by cancelling your service (assuming there are other channels that you still want)? Your $10-20 means very little to the cable company--they are a monopoly without competetion--you can't take your business elsewhere. Your business does mean more to their advertisers--you can take your business elsewhere...and so can they. -- Floyd Vest Manager, Administrative Systems--Auburn University, Alabama USA Voice: +1 205 844 4512 BBS: +1 205 745 3989 FIDO: 1:3613/3