Can you feel it? The all encompassing Iron Sphere?
Freedom is dying all around the globe.
"VEF vill rule ze verrrld!"
Posted on 08/02/2023 4:08:57 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This is rather ironic because Meta/Facebook ended access to US news when it worked with the federal government to censor news.
Okay Canadians: watcha gonna do?
Can you feel it? The all encompassing Iron Sphere?
Freedom is dying all around the globe.
"VEF vill rule ze verrrld!"
PING!
Meta “Pay for news story’s we use? Problem!”
My first instinct is to side with Meta and Google because I despise most of the governments that have passed these laws, but I’m honestly trying to figure out why I should give a crap one way or another. News media outlets should be paid for their content, but they’re going to find out quickly that Meta is right when they say the news has no tangible value.
If anyone wants on or off the Ping Me When the Internet Goes Down pinglist, kindly FReepmail me. Thanks!
99% of the “news” on Facebook is leftie swill, anyway.
The woke leftist media would have to pay ME to read most of their news and they don’t do that.
What isn't?
How long before Justin Castro tries to charge and extradite JimRob?
VPN
“Okay Canadians: watcha gonna do?”
Game theory says, change the rules and the players adjust to compensate. If the Canadians want something, they’ll figure out how to get it.
It’s like smuggling. Cocaine used to be shipped in huge bundles on ships. As the border guards got better at finding it, the smugglers adjusted. Now it comes in on-board purpose-built submarines, in the actual hull structure of boats, inside the body panels and tires of vehicles, built into something that can be dissolved leaving only cocaine. The players adjust. Incidentally, that’s why it’s impossible to stop smuggling. As long as there is a market there will be a supply.
This is another variation of sue and settle. Big tech is crying crocodile tears.
Meta understands it’s purpose is to keep the proletariat busy sharing cat pictures with each other.
“dangerous to our democracy, to our economy”
In Leftspeak, “our democracy” is the preferred pronoun for “I” and “me”. “Dangerous” means “inconvenient” or “annoying”, depending on the context.
“that’s why it’s impossible to stop smuggling. As long as there is a market there will be a supply.”
True. But in the case of online news, “smuggling” consists of knowing the web address of (or having a browser bookmark for) the news site you want to read.
Exactly.
Actually, no. Russia, China and Egypt and probably others, have successfully blocked access to news channels that are not controlled by the local governments. There are also channels blocked in the US. For example, during the Iraq war someone sent me a link to a channel that had a video of an actual terrorist attack. I watched the view from a chase car as a car bomb in the car in front was piloted next to a truck full of soldiers. The bomb was detonated from the car in back. When I went back to that link a minute later, it was gone. Error 404 or something similar. We do not have the freedom and access we think we do. It’s an illusion.
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