The internet takeover thread

[C-Mag]

Big Tech wants to form their own nations within the USA

https://notthebee.com/article/oh-come-o ... y-theor-oh

I love it. Have fun in the desert paying for your own power and water morons!

Wait til we start sending them Billions for climate change and transgender education.

[C-Mag]

Tyrants are going after free speech on podcasts next

https://www.theverge.com/22273071/podca ... eve-bannon

[C-Mag]

Poland takes on big tech
https://www.foxnews.com/world/poland-fi ... censorship

[TheOneX]

Personally, I kind of like Australia's approach, treat posting news articles as copyright infringement, and force Facebook, Google, etc. to pay copyright fees for any money they make on those posts.

[DBTrek]

Personally, I kind of like Australia's approach, treat posting news articles as copyright infringement, and force Facebook, Google, etc. to pay copyright fees for any money they make on those posts.

I liked FaceBook's response of simply blocking the articles.
Like ... ok, fine. We won't host that content.

Seems like it should've been a done deal, right?
"If you host this you have to pay"
"Ok, we will not host it"

But now the Australian government is going "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" and I'm just over here like "WTF, Australia? They don't owe your press free distribution, much less the indignity of having to pay you for distributing your content".

Fucking governments.

[TheOneX]

Personally, I kind of like Australia's approach, treat posting news articles as copyright infringement, and force Facebook, Google, etc. to pay copyright fees for any money they make on those posts.

I liked FaceBook's response of simply blocking the articles.
Like ... ok, fine. We won't host that content.

Seems like it should've been a done deal, right?
"If you host this you have to pay"
"Ok, we will not host it"

But now the Australian government is going "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" and I'm just over here like "WTF, Australia? They don't owe your press free distribution, much less the indignity of having to pay you for distributing your content".

Fucking governments.

Damnit Australia, you had a good thing going for you.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Twitter officially becomes a tool of the DNC.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twi ... r-congress

[TheOneX]

It was just an "accident" nothing to see here. Ron Paul was an "accident" also.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Being straight is a ‘dangerous organization’.

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[C-Mag]

People want their privacy protected on the web. Big Tech is driving hard to get states to pass their version of 'privacy protection'.

The Markup found industry fingerprints on at least five bills around the country—weak laws, experts say, that are designed to preempt strongerprotections


https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/04/1 ... suspicious