Freedom of Speech...HA!

So, you think that you can just talk about whatever you want without fear of somebody trying to put a stop to it?
Or how about this. For example, there is a vulnerability in a widely used piece of technology that puts millions at risk for Identity Theft and you have the means to inform the people of it, and there will be no roadblocks to prevent you from doing so. Seems like a cut and dry situation, right? Wrong!

Most recently at the HOPE Hackercon, Mythbuster Adam Savage was on a panel explaining why it is they won't ever do an RFID episode.

The short of it is, that the credit card companies gagged Discovery with legal action, Discovery relying heavily on advertisement was forced to back down. One must ask why. Why would the credit card companies want to suppress this information? What do they really stand to lose by letting the public know that this is a current threat? They are the credit card companies, they already own us, but having thousands of people be the victim of identity theft seems like a much more severe loss than whatever backlash they'd receive by having people find out they have poor security on their cards.

But here is the video from that Con.