Dumb and dumber
: I’m of the mind that it’s dumb to run boycotts for all the reasons you already know. But it’s even dumber, much dumber, to react to a threatened boycott with big legal muscle. As Glenn Reynolds reports, that’s what has happened: Boycott-Hollywood.us is shutting down because of a threat from William Morris, who would have been far smarter just to let this fade and let free speech flourish. But, hey, that’s Hollywood. I spent many years covering the fools and control freaks there. As my mentor said to me often as we sat up late rewriting stories about those fools, “We hate the stars, Jeff.”
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by Jeff Jarvis