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DirecTV is allowing at least some customers to cancel subscriptions to its Sunday Ticket package of NFL games and obtain refunds, if they cite players' national anthem protests as the reason for discontinuing service, customer service representatives said Tuesday.
Under Sunday Ticket's regular policy, refunds are not to be given once the season is underway. But the representatives said they are making exceptions this season -- which began in September -- because of the controversy over the protests, in which players kneel or link arms during the national anthem.
Spokesmen for DirecTV-parent AT&T Inc. (T) and the National Football League declined to comment.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Thexalon on Friday September 29 2017, @03:49PM (4 children)
It's pretty clear by now that the reason the protests are controversial is that a lot of people don't like what they are saying with their perfectly reasonable actions. And no, it has nothing to do with "respecting the flag": Kneeling before something is a pretty darn respectful gesture - just ask General Zod.
What is actually at issue is that there are a lot of folks out there who think cops should be able to kill whenever they want without any kind of consequences. The thinking goes that a cop is a better person than a civilian by virtue of being a cop, so if there's any kind of dispute between the cop and the civilian the cop must be right. It's basically pure authoritarianism. I think some who support this kind of thing are under the gravely mistaken impression that their kind of people never end up on the wrong end of a cop's gun.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @03:58PM
Are you sure most people even know what it is about? I heard this was going on awhile ago and just learned it was about the police from this thread...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 29 2017, @04:12PM (2 children)
Actually, I bet most people are like me and just assume its some anti-trump thing.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Friday September 29 2017, @04:24PM (1 child)
But it wasn't, because they started a year before Trump was elected.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 30 2017, @12:11AM
I'm not saying it is correct, just what people may think from hearing about it on the radio or whatever. Anyway, that was my experience.