Our industry, as much as anyone with Internet access these days, is materially hurt by the proliferation of unsolicited, untargeted and nearly ubiquitous, truly junk e-mail.
"However, aside from how it affected me emotionally, I have nothing to indicate that it's materially hurt my work within the Mozilla community or as a Mozilla employee".
It also said that its failure to meet a $28 million call caused one lender to declare a default, and that more failures could materially hurt its ability to operate normally.
United States District Judge James Moran ruled that Gene Silverberg had materially hurt Jordan, now a executive with the Washington Wizards, by saying publicly that the basketball great had lost popularity and was a weaker restaurant draw.
For a competitive firm to materially hurt our growth, they have to have some positive differentiator (price, additional content, integration, etc)., and then they have to market their service effectively.
Does Chick-fil-A have the same right, morally speaking, to do this as progressives might, in a related example, to boycott a business because of their beliefs (separate from a boycott over actions, such as discrimination, that materially hurt people and so are in a different moral category)?
