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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 3277910" data-attributes="member: 32740">You can't "blacklist" someone if the only influence it really carries is with yourself.  The idea of a blacklist is that NOBODY ELSE will then work with the persons listed on it, or that EVERYONE will seek to punish the persons listed on it.  Modern usage also carries a great deal of association from the Hollywood Blacklist started in 1947 and thus implies a largely SECRET list, as well as egregious political motivations for perpetrating it rather than merely legal-action and publicity-oriented.Maybe I'm being nitpicky but it strikes me as indicative of bad/lazy writers and editors at scifi.com for using it this way.  The idea that anyone except New Line is going to go along with "blacklisting" Jackson is just silly, and so, the usage is every bit as silly.Whatever.</blockquote>