JWeinCom said:
You dislike that companies get to make decisions about what content they want to put out? First off, this in no way makes it harder to find it. Literally, you can be reading this comic in less than a minute if you desire. But, even if piracy didn't exist, I don't see why Disney has or should have any obligation to make sure everything they have ever published remains continuously as available as possible. See, I don't really see an answer in what you said about why Disney would benefit from republishing this. A company not doing something that they have no reason to do is not in any way shape or form censorship. The government telling me I can't yell fire in a theater is censorship. Me thinking it over, deciding that would not benefit me, and then keeping my mouth shut is the exact opposite. That is part of free speech. Deciding what to say, and what not to say. The fact that you have to think about how other people might respond to your free speech by using their free of speech is not a bug, it is a feature. So, again, I just really don't see the problem of a person or a company deciding what is in their best interest. Not saying it's perfect, but I really can't think of a better system for determining whether or not things like this should be published. Can you?
My heart goes out to all the people who now won't be able to read a 20 year old Donald Duck comic that they didn't know existed until two seconds ago without having to spend 20 seconds on Google. Thoughts and prayers.
To be fair, in the particular comics mentioned, it's just a brief and really pointless cameo. Could have easily been edited out, or redrawn but then again... why bother with that? Anyone who disagrees with their decision, I issue an open challenge of providing a rational financial reason for them to republish this. |
Reminds me of one of the only good aspects of the DuckTales reboot. They redesigned the Bombie so that he doesn't look like a racist caricature of a black man anymore.