There is nothing sadder than seeing for profit news companies begging other for profit companies for free handouts while their parent companies are listed on stock exchanges.
These companies are so use to handouts from local governments they are trying to use the same playbook.
If facebook is horrible for not giving money to these groups then they are horrible for even asking when charities trying to cure disease are not getting funded at all by facebook.
Calling facebook manipulative and not realizing their even industry is founded on manipulating what facts are presented to emotionally trap their viewer into giving their attention. Facebook copied the playbook.
The really sad part is that go-nowhere do-nothing legislation like this sucks the air out of the room for real concern over Facebook. American citizens desperately need data privacy laws and assurances that prevents unjust data collection and profiling from companies like Facebook. The news regulation angle is a manipulation of outrage that worse yet gives Facebook the exact "free ride" they want. It's such an insidious diversion you'd think Mark Zuckerberg planned it himself.
Nonsense appeals like this one really makes you wonder what it's like for Rupert Murdoch et. al these days. Your penthouse is nice, but something feels off. Nobody is talking to you, the TV is on but nobody's watching. A press event happens at the White House, and your daughter reads it to you from her phone before you even see it hit the Fox ticker reel. Something inside such a man must snap, watching the concept of 'news' obsolete itself before his very eyes. For someone who's namesake is built on traditional media, it would probably feel like watching yourself die. He stumbles away to fetch the vinyl for Komm, süßer Tod and sits listening with his hands folded until he can find a way to make it all work out.
On the bright side, the cries from traditional media have garnered about as much credibility as Craig Wright running up a bar tab. Hopefully the commercial nature of either side helps to paint their true intentions.
It's wild to see such a blatant hit piece on Facebook. There's barely a mention or analysis of the actual dispute between Facebook and news media. They might actually have an interesting article if they delved into the actual details of the case, the people involved, the actual written law, and where both sides are coming from.
But no, that might paint Facebook as potentially acting reasonably — can't have that. Let's just laundry list everything we think makes them look bad and hope people don't look too deep into the "Facebook isn't 'paying' for news" line. It doesn't matter that they're also dropping news in the US where there's no such law, right?
ipaddr|2 years ago
These companies are so use to handouts from local governments they are trying to use the same playbook.
If facebook is horrible for not giving money to these groups then they are horrible for even asking when charities trying to cure disease are not getting funded at all by facebook.
Calling facebook manipulative and not realizing their even industry is founded on manipulating what facts are presented to emotionally trap their viewer into giving their attention. Facebook copied the playbook.
smoldesu|2 years ago
Nonsense appeals like this one really makes you wonder what it's like for Rupert Murdoch et. al these days. Your penthouse is nice, but something feels off. Nobody is talking to you, the TV is on but nobody's watching. A press event happens at the White House, and your daughter reads it to you from her phone before you even see it hit the Fox ticker reel. Something inside such a man must snap, watching the concept of 'news' obsolete itself before his very eyes. For someone who's namesake is built on traditional media, it would probably feel like watching yourself die. He stumbles away to fetch the vinyl for Komm, süßer Tod and sits listening with his hands folded until he can find a way to make it all work out.
On the bright side, the cries from traditional media have garnered about as much credibility as Craig Wright running up a bar tab. Hopefully the commercial nature of either side helps to paint their true intentions.
Spivak|2 years ago
But no, that might paint Facebook as potentially acting reasonably — can't have that. Let's just laundry list everything we think makes them look bad and hope people don't look too deep into the "Facebook isn't 'paying' for news" line. It doesn't matter that they're also dropping news in the US where there's no such law, right?