The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden
Which is why you shouldn’t have started this thread with your meaningless anecdote. Doesn’t matter what the statistics are, you haven’t proven what you said “no one watches the Olympics but even if they do, they use VPN” which is an absurd/impossible claim to begin with.
You see, the thing is you did not and cannot prove “no one” is doing something that common sense and anecdotes tells me isn’t true. Hell, just people flipping channels on traditional cable or using an antenna and accidentally finding the Olympics on NBC that way would undoubtedly number in the thousands.
Which is why you shouldn’t have started this thread with your meaningless anecdote. Doesn’t matter what the statistics are, you haven’t proven what you said “no one watches the Olympics but even if they do, they use VPN” which is an absurd/impossible claim to begin with.
Which I literally covered in my first comment: “I know these are anecdotes, but I’ve seen stats…”.
I just wasn’t willing to put in the work proving anyone wrong until you so kindly decided to say something demonstrably false, using only an anecdote.
You see, the thing is you did not and cannot prove “no one” is doing something that common sense and anecdotes tells me isn’t true. Hell, just people flipping channels on traditional cable or using an antenna and accidentally finding the Olympics on NBC that way would undoubtedly number in the thousands.
Please do quote me where I said “no one”. You are the one that put those words in my mouth.