Recently Spotted 103-Year-Old Orca Is Bad News For SeaWorld -- Here's Why

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100. It's a response to a whistle-blower

who has been making the rounds recently, I saw him on the Daily Show.

http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/27/john-hargrove-seaworld-jon-stewart/

I couldn't get the embed code to work here (anyone know?), but the video is on that page.

It sucks that Seaworld is able to use their money to air B.S. ads justifying their treatment of these animals. It's a good example of the problem with money and speech. Seaworld has a lot of money to shout their speech all over the airwaves. The orcas? Not so much, maybe an occasssional whistleblower if Seawrld can't succeed in intimidating him/her (they usually do).

We really need to examine this, it's ruining everything. Free speech needs to be interpreted in some way that accounts for the amplitude (really the distribution) of that speech. When someone has the money to shout something all over the place all the time, how can anyone else be heard? If they are heard, are they heard to an extent that allows their non-monied speech to compete and be weighed against the more widely heard monied speech? Obviously not, that's a root problem to our entire society that has to be teased out and remedied.