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0 pointswredue2y ago0 comments

What a complete load of garbage. News organizations are asking to be paid for their stolen content.

They are rightfully complaining that tech giants are now attempting to forcefully allow stealing content so long as you’re large enough.

It’s funny, because right now, you’re basically saying that Reddit is correct to forcefully take over subs that are locking down in protest of killing third party apps for the purpose of having better ability to spy on your activity and pump ads.

Same shit dude.

When a liberal government does it = bad

When a sub fights a corporate spy network = good

Funny how that works. Personally, I just enjoy not being a hypocrite.

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jsnell2y ago

It sounds like you don't actually understand the contents of the law. It has nothing to do with "stolen content" as you put it. Just the act of Facebook linking to a news article without any information from the article (title, snippets, images) is enough. How is that theft in your mind?

I have no idea of where your reddit analogue is coming from.

marcinzm2y ago

Meta blocked the news content, no more stealing according to your own line of argument, how is that a bad outcome? You can't have it both ways that this is stealing so it's bad but that not stealing is also bad because "reasons."

Throwing in a bunch of random insults and statements about liberals and corporate spy networks doesn't make for an argument or a useful discussion. Stick to reddit or twitter if you want to go down that route.

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