I just turned down a website content contract on principle.

[JayhawkSD]

33. I applaud you for turning it down.

I have done the same thing for the same reaso more than once in my career.

"I find this to be a predatory business practice and oppose it on principle. That's what I told my client,"

I did learn, however, and learned it the hard way, that it is better to simply turn it down without making an issue of why you are doing so. Giving offense to others in the business community is simply not a good idea. It doesn't matter that you are right and he is wrong, which I agree was the case with your incident, you still made an enemy when you did not need to do so, since he was almost certainly offended to be told that he was a "predatory business" and will not be doing you any good in the business community.

If he is capable of predatory business practices he may decide that you, having offended him, should become his prey.