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Is Waterfox still owned by the advertising company?

Then something has changed.

I don’t disagree that legislation might be preferable, although even that would still have to be filtered through the courts for interpretation. But we all know that getting this — indeed any — legislation out of Washington isn’t possible. So suits based on existing law is the next best thing.

As a former Apple fanboy and current iPhone user, even I think it’s about time that the US joined the rest of the world in reining in abusive tech monopolies. (Financial and commercial monopolies, too, but that’s a different post.)

My breaking point came when I tried to buy an Apple Watch a couple of years ago. It couldn’t even be activated without a Mac or an iPhone that was less than a year old. That’s when I gave up.

It seems to be about journalism and fair play. Media studies is tangential to that.

ETA: I take your point. But there are better options than allowing monopolies to emerge.

… Code taking money from a profitable business to prop up an unprofitable one.

That wasn't the professor's point - that was the reporter's.

It seems an accurate reporting of the law, but true. My apologies.

The reason for this was news organisations were never in the news business, Amanda Lotz, a professor of media studies at QUT, said.

Media studies is not journalism. It’s an adjacent field. While she certainly has a point from her perspective, I wouldn’t call it the final arbiter in this case.

Interesting analogy, but it doesn't apply. The Economist and Wapo were paid the wholesale rate for their papers whether the vendor sells them, gives them away, lines his birdcage with them, or burns them. Whether he sells them or uses them for decoration is irrelevant. All the Code does is restore that dynamic.

So long as there’s a strong mechanism to ensure their independence, this is the way to go. We used to have taxpayer-funded journalism (PBS and NPR) in the US. They still exist, but they’re forced to solicit advertisers “underwriters” to keep the lights on thanks to Reagan and Gingrich.

We have Murdoch’s “Fox News” too. I think that man may be evil incarnate. You guys can have him back. :)

This is sad. Admittedly the company has seen rough times in the past few years, but they didn’t deserve this.

RIP Rooster Teeth

Friend, good editors are trained to write BLUF headlines. That’s just doing their job. So yes, FB still profits from their work and should pay for it.

Which people don’t follow. Hell, they don’t even stop scrolling on Lemmy to click the links.

We both know that’s not how stereotypical FB users work. They read the news on the platform. Full stop. They didn’t pause doomscrolling to go read the same article on the producers’ websites.

As a former journalist, I agree that a robust news industry is absolutely essential to a functioning democracy. And while that should make it something to support with tax revenue, in the US right now, it’s terrifying even to imagine what Trump 2.0 would do with that control. It isn’t comfortable to think what Biden would do to silence critics who are complicating his re-election campaign.

However, I have to disagree with the professors’ basic premise about the Media Bargaining Code taking money from a profitable business to prop up an unprofitable one. First, news should be viewed as a public service, not a business. Second, Facebook et al. established and grew their ad businesses by relaying journalists’ work; that’s worth something. The fact that FB no longer wants to pay for the content they’re profiting off of is just too damn bad. Third, the complaint about redistributing wealth doesn’t hold water since that’s exactly what the traditional news outlets’ own ad businesses did: transfer wealth from profitable businesses (largely retail and services) to support a less profitable one (journalism producers).

I’m not Australian, so arguably I don’t have a dog in this race. But it doesn’t sit well to watch Facebook rape and pillage an entire vital industry and then just walk away leaving it for dead. They must be held to account.

So they recommend reinstating all the silos that efficiency experts have been telling us to break down for decades?

Has anyone found NSA’s backdoor in the proposal?

Well done, EU!

Gakh!

Second Life RP. Star Trek Online

Thanks for the sources.

Fuck you

The post has likely disappeared by now, but fuck off anyway.

And mods, PLEASE ban me. This place is like a really bad drug and my life is better without it.