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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8031264">Companies absolutely have the right to publish what they want. But there are still moral questions around that. Particularly if you have a company perfectly content to publish something people want to buy, and a group uses a social media campaign to pressure them to stop publishing it. That can have a huge impact on what content is available. And it doesn't take a large group of people to make a large publisher nervous about bad publicity (especially as social media is only recently being used regularly in this way, and companies are having a hard time gauging what impact a trending campaign on twitter has). Again, in this instance, they may be objecting to content you agree with, but what about when it isn't. What happens when the other side of the debate uses the same social media levers to enact changes they want in media (which they eventually will do if this keeps proving effective). As a consumer, I don't want my access to media driven by pressure groups on any side of the political spectrum. I like being able to decide for myself if I buy a book, movie or show. It just feels like people are increasingly making it harder for individuals to make that call themselves and to evaluate and judge the material for themselves. And even if there is no pressure, when a publisher has an important work of any kind, and decides to stop publishing it, I think there are moral considerations there if that decision will make that work less available to the public. They don't have to, but if someone is sitting on the copyright of a significant book, they have a moral responsibility to consider how their actions as a publisher will affect access to the work in my opinion.</blockquote>

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