[keyle]

Wow quite the story. I always wondered where that brand popped up. Now that I know the full story, I hope to see its demise. It embodies everything that's wrong with this world of idiocracy: do the biggest shit and get away with it.

[rosege]

It seems to me that there are far worse candidates for driving idiocracy. In the early days I liked some of the crazy places they sent reporters for the paper. They would go places no one else would and find interesting stories. There was a bit of that in the HBO show. I also liked some of the HBO climate change specials and thought they did a good job of going to the source - e.g. flying with NASA over Antarctica.

[wpietri]

Same. When I read the #metoo article about them, I asked HBO to drop them. HBO never even bothered to reply, so I canceled my subscription. This article made me glad I had.