No Moral Highground
First: What did Jerry Lee Lewis, Prince and Sheena Easton do to deserve these kind of vitriolic comments? I'd say that Chris has some real issues to work out. This seems like a pretty rancid and unprovoked attack on performers completely unrelated to the story at hand.
He doesn't like Sheena's "mogrel-accented" voice so much he uses an article about an entertainer behaving inappropriately on stage to demean her talent? Has he been waiting for an opportunity to attack this woman, but finally gave up and decided this unrelated incident would just have to suffice?
I realize that this article is written in a way to make the reader think he's trying to be funny, but if that were so wouldn't he actually be funny?
Second: If there's any company in the world without a moral foot to stand on it's Verizon. I really don't think we need a company with the ethics of Verizon as our moral compass.
As far as the mobile operators and their lack of "moral conscience", maybe they just don't see it as their position to make these kinds of decisions for their customers or maybe they think this borders a little too close to censorship.
I guess Chris feels that we can always use more of enough the knee-jerk reactions and political opportunism we saw with the Don Imus gaff.
People will probably be so morally outraged by this that the demand to watch it will come close to bringing down a couple of U-Tube's servers.