And they knew a long time ago it would be expensive and did it anyway.
And they knew a long time ago it would be expensive and did it anyway.
It’s not binary, but I agree with your general sentiment.
However, the American citizen has been propagandized and groomed to be corporate bootlickers. To our own demise, we accept the gross negligence of both parties to create reasonable regulation to maintain the balance needed for capitalism to function fairly.
I’m thinking you don’t know the definition of “neoliberal.”
They’ll eventually say it was a mistake, and then immediately go back to doing their normal BS.
Welcome to the outcome of poorly regulated capitalism - corporate benefit outweighs societal benefit.
Maybe the community should tag paywalled articles, such that those posts can be wholly filtered by users not wanting to see them?
An even more unpopular opinion: we should pay for good journalism.
The anti-trust pressure has increased with this administration. Lina Kahn has been effective at the FTC in bringing a number of cases forward.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/ is a very well executed newsletter with more detailed information regarding anti-trust if you’re interested.
Liberals, huh?
What political affiliation is Netanyahu?
Local motorsports in the US.
It’s a whack-a-mole of services which restream content, but the piracy services are also subscription based.
What about the small, local services that are just trying to pay the broadcast production bills and make a little cash to become viable businesses?
Fuck those people too?
Because these piracy services also affect them. These services restream the content taking away revenue from the small streaming services. In many cases we’re talking about volumes less than 100. So these restream services pop up, illegally use trademarks and copyrighted materials to advertise, and can reduce volumes enough that they are no longer viable.
Sometimes these things affect regular people trying to make life work too. Not just billionaire assholes who legitimately deserve the criticism.
If you like reading about anti-trust, I highly recommend BIG by Matt Stoller. Very well thought out journalism and he’s been influential.
It’s purely anecdotal, but go to a small town in Iowa and you may notice something a little unexpected - there’s seemingly a larger than normal population of gay and transgender people.
Again, anecdotal, but I visit there frequently for work. My gut tells me the crop treatments are screwing with hormones…unless there’s some other explanation.
The government is people. So all you’re saying is people, by nature, will always become corrupt.
Likely a jurisdiction issue moreso anything else.
It’s also hard to keep a hosting location wholly confidential.
Lots of folks here with strong opinions that have never dealt with legal proceedings, or an itemized bill calculated in 6-minute increments.
Creativity takes inspiration. Somebody has to manifest the stepping stones on the path to a masterpiece. The magic of the internet is we get to watch it happen. We’ll rarely hear Beethoven’s garbage or see Michelangelo’s screw ups, but whoever did this…we get to see the stepping stone.
Many Americans (I’m one) cling to a variety of purity tests, and they struggle to grasp the bigger picture which could result in better outcomes for everyone.
Black or white. Win or lose. It’s a tiring cultural characteristic.
Yep. Incentives align differently for different people, which is what makes a healthy market work.
The wholly predictable outcome of poorly regulating capitalism.
“The market will create competition and the best products.” No. The market will seek the optimal method to make the most money, and if that optimal method includes killing people, that will be the method selected.
Start putting people in jail and taking businesses into receivership for bad behavior, and then the optional method for maximizing profit will also result in better products.