When historically they've been able to get away with anything up to and including murder on excuses that would have seen basically anyone else laughed out of court and into a cell while their actions are disgusting they're not really surprising, no.
'How dare you not pay us for the traffic you give us for free?!'
One need only look to the past to see these stunts as the naked cash grabs that they are, as for all the screaming about how services like Google and Facebook are 'stealing content' when that content is removed the same companies that were throwing fits lose their gorram minds and scramble to get their content re-listed as quick as possible, all the while crying about how mean Google/Facebook are to pull their 'stolen' content down rather than just pay for it.
'You were wiling to pay them we're just asking for the same.'
They imagine that THIS TIME they will make it work, despite still working from the flawed basis for the reasoning for "needing" this tax.
Thanks to both Google and Facebook caving in Australia politicians and publishers have a solid reason to keep trying as both of those companies showed that while they may have been willing to leave markets in the past if you push hard enough they will fold and start paying out these days.
That's exactly what happened in Spain when they tried this stunt and Google was smart enough to say no. It hurt the bigger outlets but it devastated the smaller ones, so whether they get paid for free traffic sent their way or see their competitors scythed down there's no reason for the larger publishers not to try to push this, as it's a win-win either way.
And since being a racist, nazi, homophobe, etc, has become mainstream conservative Republican values, you are finally admitting that you are a racist, nazi, homophobic, xenophobic, bigoted asshole.
Don't forget pro-terrorism, anti-vaxxer and holocaust denialism, texas republicans went out of their way to make clear that those are all 'conservative values' that they feel need protection and it would be rude of people to ignore their efforts.
'Down with peanuts!' 'Sir, this is a peanut factory.'
Cops claim being in the same room as a substance is dangerous to their health.
Actual medical professionals say that that's not likely to say the least.
Assuming the cops aren't just making shit up(something I'm sure they'd never do) it sounds like they're dealing with yet another medical miracle that only affects people in their profession, and just like you don't take a job working a peanut factory if you have an allergy to them it sounds like police work is a threat to their lives and they need to be let go or quit for their own sake.
'Our proposed bill will provide enough funding for every town large enough to have one more hospital built!'
'Doesn't it also include a provision that will effectively require the destruction of at least two other hospitals, no matter the town's size?'
'One more hospital!'
'... yup, not even listening.'
It doesn't matter how big a bag of candy is, nor how amazing it might taste, if you don't just suspect but know that one piece in the bag is infused with enough cyanide to be instantly lethal and the only way to find out which is to eat them you throw that bag away.
So, they want to offer a 'family friendly' platform to the assholes that keep getting the boot from social media for being anything but 'family friendly'... well I don't see this blowing up in their faces at all!
I can only imagine that certain accounts will be flagged as exempt from the filters as otherwise Trump and the higher ranking members of his cult will be throwing fits on a regular basis as their 'family friendly' platform keeps telling them to stop acting like assholes and blocking their posts and we can't have that now can we?
It's easy enough to say you're going to increase service availability for millions of customers, all the more so in an industry that has a history of deciding that a particular area has been served if a house in the area is connected or could theoretically be served, but following through is another thing entirely, and if history is any indication they'll probably engage in some song and dances just long enough for some PR before going right back to nickel-and-diming and offering the cheapest quality service for the highest possible price.
'Deposit cleared so here's your tax break approval.'
They really don't for the most part. Sure some members of the public who aren't paying attention might be fooled because they honestly don't know that the same company promising the moon has done so and failed in the past but when it comes to politicians they just don't care because as much as telecom companies might screw over the public the one group they actually are dedicated to keeping happy via 'donations' are politicians.
As for the press, well, journalism and reporting is hard and might annoy powerful companies, much easier and safer to just parrot whatever PR statements are handed to them without commentary.
Hmm, looked at through that lens their behavior would certainly make a lot more sense, and it's certainly consistent with that behavior where it doesn't seem to matter what someone does so long as that person is on their side.
How's that saying go, something along the lines of 'the quickest way to overturn a law is to enforce it totally'? If politicians had to deal with the laws they pass the same way that everyone else does things would be very different, of that I have no doubt.
If you can't understand something as simple as 'blatantly obvious attempt to stonewall and/or delay a nomination to preserve a deliberately created deadlock' I'm not sure I can boil it down to anything easier to grasp.
Make up your mind, is having a deliberately created 2-2 deadlock broken by having 'one more lawyer' no big deal, in which case why are they trying to hard to keep her out of office, or isn't it?
As for the rest of your comment bloody hell it's like a political garbage buzzword bingo all-square, from 'it doesn't matter' to 'the other side does it too', capped with the modern version of 'But Obama' that is 'But Biden'.
'If you're not republican you don't belong in office.'
You know, just in case people needed to be reminded that the current(for a good while at that) republican view of government is 'The only valid choice for a governmental position is someone on our side.'
That unfortunately is all too easy to explain, as as much as Facebook benefits from 230 they've come to realize that platforms that would compete with them rely on it more and that unlike those other platforms Facebook could survive a gutted or repealed 230.
Losing 230 protections would be bad for Facebook but it would be devastating for smaller platforms and services that might compete(either currently or in the future) with them.
Ah, but you see the lawyers don't have as much money as Facebook, and when you're dealing with a Steve Dallas lawsuit the size of the target's bank account is all the matters.
They just keep leaving out the second part of the sentence when they make that claim, say the silent part out loud and they're still perfectly consistent.
'Cancel culture is bad when anyone but us does it' is the actual rule they follow.
A very good point, hell I argued below that it's beyond easy to con Trump cultists in another way so I'm sure you're dead on and it would be trivial to spin him arguing that he's a liar and/or insane to worm out of a case as as 'necessary lie that doesn't actually mean anything'.
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When historically they've been able to get away with anything up to and including murder on excuses that would have seen basically anyone else laughed out of court and into a cell while their actions are disgusting they're not really surprising, no.
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'How dare you not pay us for the traffic you give us for free?!'
One need only look to the past to see these stunts as the naked cash grabs that they are, as for all the screaming about how services like Google and Facebook are 'stealing content' when that content is removed the same companies that were throwing fits lose their gorram minds and scramble to get their content re-listed as quick as possible, all the while crying about how mean Google/Facebook are to pull their 'stolen' content down rather than just pay for it.
On the post: Wherein The Copia Institute Tells The Copyright Office That Link Taxes Are A Good Idea Only If You Want To Kill Off Journalism
'You were wiling to pay them we're just asking for the same.'
They imagine that THIS TIME they will make it work, despite still working from the flawed basis for the reasoning for "needing" this tax.
Thanks to both Google and Facebook caving in Australia politicians and publishers have a solid reason to keep trying as both of those companies showed that while they may have been willing to leave markets in the past if you push hard enough they will fold and start paying out these days.
On the post: Wherein The Copia Institute Tells The Copyright Office That Link Taxes Are A Good Idea Only If You Want To Kill Off Journalism
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That's exactly what happened in Spain when they tried this stunt and Google was smart enough to say no. It hurt the bigger outlets but it devastated the smaller ones, so whether they get paid for free traffic sent their way or see their competitors scythed down there's no reason for the larger publishers not to try to push this, as it's a win-win either way.
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And since being a racist, nazi, homophobe, etc, has become mainstream conservative Republican values, you are finally admitting that you are a racist, nazi, homophobic, xenophobic, bigoted asshole.
Don't forget pro-terrorism, anti-vaxxer and holocaust denialism, texas republicans went out of their way to make clear that those are all 'conservative values' that they feel need protection and it would be rude of people to ignore their efforts.
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'Down with peanuts!' 'Sir, this is a peanut factory.'
Cops claim being in the same room as a substance is dangerous to their health.
Actual medical professionals say that that's not likely to say the least.
Assuming the cops aren't just making shit up(something I'm sure they'd never do) it sounds like they're dealing with yet another medical miracle that only affects people in their profession, and just like you don't take a job working a peanut factory if you have an allergy to them it sounds like police work is a threat to their lives and they need to be let go or quit for their own sake.
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One step forward, two dozen steps back
'Our proposed bill will provide enough funding for every town large enough to have one more hospital built!'
'Doesn't it also include a provision that will effectively require the destruction of at least two other hospitals, no matter the town's size?'
'One more hospital!'
'... yup, not even listening.'
It doesn't matter how big a bag of candy is, nor how amazing it might taste, if you don't just suspect but know that one piece in the bag is infused with enough cyanide to be instantly lethal and the only way to find out which is to eat them you throw that bag away.
On the post: Devin Nunes, CEO Of Trump's TRUTH Social, Confirms That 'Free Speech' Social Media Will Be HEAVILY Moderated
What could go wrong?
So, they want to offer a 'family friendly' platform to the assholes that keep getting the boot from social media for being anything but 'family friendly'... well I don't see this blowing up in their faces at all!
I can only imagine that certain accounts will be flagged as exempt from the filters as otherwise Trump and the higher ranking members of his cult will be throwing fits on a regular basis as their 'family friendly' platform keeps telling them to stop acting like assholes and blocking their posts and we can't have that now can we?
On the post: Devin Nunes, CEO Of Trump's TRUTH Social, Confirms That 'Free Speech' Social Media Will Be HEAVILY Moderated
Time to run away again coward
Social media platforms, by contrast, have been criticized for their removal of content based upon political correctness.
Which content is being removed for 'political correctness' reasons, and as always be specific.
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Fool me two-hundred and thirty-two times...
It's easy enough to say you're going to increase service availability for millions of customers, all the more so in an industry that has a history of deciding that a particular area has been served if a house in the area is connected or could theoretically be served, but following through is another thing entirely, and if history is any indication they'll probably engage in some song and dances just long enough for some PR before going right back to nickel-and-diming and offering the cheapest quality service for the highest possible price.
On the post: Fresh Off Its Merger Failure(s), AT&T Gets Back To Promising Big Fiber Investments That May Or May Not Happen
'Deposit cleared so here's your tax break approval.'
They really don't for the most part. Sure some members of the public who aren't paying attention might be fooled because they honestly don't know that the same company promising the moon has done so and failed in the past but when it comes to politicians they just don't care because as much as telecom companies might screw over the public the one group they actually are dedicated to keeping happy via 'donations' are politicians.
As for the press, well, journalism and reporting is hard and might annoy powerful companies, much easier and safer to just parrot whatever PR statements are handed to them without commentary.
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Re: Re: Re:
Hmm, looked at through that lens their behavior would certainly make a lot more sense, and it's certainly consistent with that behavior where it doesn't seem to matter what someone does so long as that person is on their side.
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Re:
How's that saying go, something along the lines of 'the quickest way to overturn a law is to enforce it totally'? If politicians had to deal with the laws they pass the same way that everyone else does things would be very different, of that I have no doubt.
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If you can't understand something as simple as 'blatantly obvious attempt to stonewall and/or delay a nomination to preserve a deliberately created deadlock' I'm not sure I can boil it down to anything easier to grasp.
On the post: Enough Is Enough: The Senate Should Stop Playing Games And Confirm Gigi Sohn
Annd BINGO, nice
Make up your mind, is having a deliberately created 2-2 deadlock broken by having 'one more lawyer' no big deal, in which case why are they trying to hard to keep her out of office, or isn't it?
As for the rest of your comment bloody hell it's like a political garbage buzzword bingo all-square, from 'it doesn't matter' to 'the other side does it too', capped with the modern version of 'But Obama' that is 'But Biden'.
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'If you're not republican you don't belong in office.'
You know, just in case people needed to be reminded that the current(for a good while at that) republican view of government is 'The only valid choice for a governmental position is someone on our side.'
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Re: Unfortunately for the rest of us…
That unfortunately is all too easy to explain, as as much as Facebook benefits from 230 they've come to realize that platforms that would compete with them rely on it more and that unlike those other platforms Facebook could survive a gutted or repealed 230.
Losing 230 protections would be bad for Facebook but it would be devastating for smaller platforms and services that might compete(either currently or in the future) with them.
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Ah, but you see the lawyers don't have as much money as Facebook, and when you're dealing with a Steve Dallas lawsuit the size of the target's bank account is all the matters.
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They just keep leaving out the second part of the sentence when they make that claim, say the silent part out loud and they're still perfectly consistent.
'Cancel culture is bad when anyone but us does it' is the actual rule they follow.
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Re: Re: Re: My question is this…
A very good point, hell I argued below that it's beyond easy to con Trump cultists in another way so I'm sure you're dead on and it would be trivial to spin him arguing that he's a liar and/or insane to worm out of a case as as 'necessary lie that doesn't actually mean anything'.
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