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That would be an interesting argument if Sea World could prove that the same standards aren’t being applied evenly. However, I’m not a legal expert and have no idea what you can sue people over.
 
I'm no legal expert either but I'm pretty sure that since TripAdvisor et al. are private companies, they can do what they want. It's still shitty virtue-signaling though.
 
I'm no legal expert either but I'm pretty sure that since TripAdvisor et al. are private companies, they can do what they want. It's still shitty virtue-signaling though.

They could do a damages lawsuit that not advertising their business while pushing another with the same complaints hurts their ability to profit.
 
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Honestly IANAL, but I suspect their best chance at successful legal recourse would be to essentially make the claim that these rules and granting of exceptions to one company (Disney) who is doing the same thing as SeaWorld (keeping and showing dolphins) is discriminatory in nature.
 
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Is that how it works though? Isn’t it TripAdvisor’s right as a private entity to “discriminate” against once company as much as they want to?

Plus, since most of these sites have some sort of asterisk that “explains” the discrepancy between Disney and Seaworld, even if there was a case to be had, I feel like they could easily make the “captive mammals aren’t central to the Disney experience” cop-out argument and be safe anyway.
 
Is that how it works though? Isn’t it TripAdvisor’s right as a private entity to “discriminate” against once company as much as they want to?

Plus, since most of these sites have some sort of asterisk that “explains” the discrepancy between Disney and Seaworld, even if there was a case to be had, I feel like they could easily make the “captive mammals aren’t central to the Disney experience” cop-out argument and be safe anyway.

It's a double standard sure, but if Disney doesn't pay them directly i'm not sure there is much that could be done.
 
we should collectively buy more shares than them and counteract everything they try to do to harm SeaWorld. Fool proof.
 
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I was at SeaWorld yesterday, didnt see this. I will say that SeaWorld added 7 additional show times to their schedule today and 4 additional ones yesterday. So I'd say they are doing pretty good right now.
 
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Release them still, they deserve to be freed.
If they released them they would just die, so you want them to die instead of being kept in a place where they are fed everyday and don't have to worry about predators?
Not just die but likely die very painfully. I again point to Keiko. The final report issued by the group that was trying very hard to return him to the wild is extremely damming. Despite an extreme effort to teach him he was an extremely poor hunter that was starving and down almost 4 THOUSAND pounds or close to 25% of his body weight. He was both lonely and desperate for food which lead him to constantly seek out humans and causing him to get dangerously close to boats. His weight loss and his lack of natural defenses to stuff he encountered suppressed his immune system and led to chronic and severe pneumonia. He was in such pain that he tried to beach himself on more the one occasion basically meaning he was in so much pain that he was trying to kill himself. What makes you believe that any of those things would be what any annimal would want to go through?
 
Tbf, most of shows on the 24-hour news channels is not journalism but entertainment programming - the problem is many viewers can't tell the difference.

Of course, having worked in the news industry for a bit, I too believe that even more traditional sources editorialize over report.

/End rant
 
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