r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 I voted • Jul 18 '25

Soft Paywall Stephen Colbert’s Cancellation Is Exactly What It Looks Like | Mock a Trump bribe on Monday, get canceled by Thursday. The Late Show’s death reveals how billionaires and presidents are reshaping American media.

https://newrepublic.com/article/198120/stephen-colbert-cancellation-ellison-trump
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u/MrPantsyFlants Jul 18 '25

Dissent of any kind will not be tolerated citizen! I canceled Paramount plus this morning. I like Star Trek but not enough to support a company that capitulates so easily to fascists. Fuck Paramount

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u/worldofzero Jul 18 '25

The star Trek blurays are cheaper than an annual streaming subscription.

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u/J_Square83 Colorado Jul 18 '25

True, but you're still giving them money.

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u/CrunchyAssDiaper Jul 18 '25

What if you buy them second hand?

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u/Lanerlan Jul 18 '25

This is the way. Physical media trading hands of appreciators.

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u/The_Templar_Kormac Jul 19 '25

or, y'know, distributed peer2peer filesharing since we don't live in the 80s

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u/Lanerlan Jul 19 '25

You can still watch physical if the internet goes down, not to mention that an uncompressed rip of a bluray or 4k are huge in filesize. There are benefits of physical media.

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u/The_Templar_Kormac Jul 19 '25

you know filesharing means you end up with the file, right?