They took a modern Twitter Retweet and made it an old-style where you put "RT" and then copy the Tweet. Gettr calls them "posts" and "reposts" so putting "RT" makes no sense unless you're really bad at spelling.
I noticed that some of the Tweets they imported converted a standard Twitter Retweet to an old style RT, which seems to cross a line - it's one thing to let a user recreate their Twitter feed on a new platform, but when the platform itself is actively modifying imported content to copy Twitter, that seems like a different action.
Agree with most of your article, just wanted to clarify - DC votes about 96% Democratic. The primaries are essentially the election here, so everyone runs as a Democrat. It's stupid, but we as a country have decided that an exactly two party system is the only possible way to have a government.
Jack is a conservative and a terrible person. When they put in physical barriers to keep people from u-turning through the cycletrack down the middle of PA Ave, Jack made the DC Dept of Transportation leave space in front of the Council office building so he could u-turn into his parking space out front.
I still don’t know any owner that’s in this business because of the money.
I hope he's reminded of that next time he's looking for handouts from the city for stadium improvements because his hobby business isn't making enough money.
Another thing to think about is good cops with good intentions who have valid reasons to live elsewhere. I know a cop who lived in the city where she worked. She chose to move to a nearby suburb not because of contempt for those in the district where she worked, but because it was increasingly problematic for her to run into people she had arrested when she was off duty.
In no way do I mean to justify what this cop did - it sounds like a bad cop is getting what he deserves. But forcing cops to live where they work has consequences that we can't ignore.
I trust Facebook more than I trust the NSA. Not that I trust Facebook at all, but at least I can sever ties with them, so they have to at least pretend to sort of care about my privacy.
Even more, I don't know what consumers really get out of this. What happens if, for example, Facebook agrees to this and then doesn't comply? Do I get anything? Am I part of some class action where eight years from now they send me a check for $2.38?
1) I agree. He had no business moderating. He should stick to whatever it is he does on daytime TV.
2) No, my point is that all media coverage is failing in the same way Lauer did, and I don't quite understand why so many people are jumping on him and letting so many others slide.
The thing I don't get is why we're all piling on Matt Lauer? As mentioned above, calling him a journalist is a stretch. And this is how all the media has been handling Trump. Just this week we've seen articles from both the NY Times and the Washington Post about how the media coverage of Trump is failing. This is nearly unfathomable since the Times and the Post are two of the largest media outlets in the country.
There's no question that Lauer did a terrible job, but I don't know how this was a surprise to anyone.
"The lack of control over the content by content companies and authentication processes has reduced the demand for video because you don’t have to pay for it,” Mr. Rutledge said on the earnings call. “That’s going on in the college market."
If I was on the board at Charter and my CEO showed such a lack of understanding of basic supply and demand, I would fire him before the earnings call was over. Yes, sure, people demand less of things they get for free. That's definitely how it works.
Also, it's funny how much this sounds like hysterics over P2P a few years ago and how that was destroying the industry because college kids now had free internet.
It's not making it more so, it's failing to make it less so. I don't mean to be splitting hairs - I think there's a real difference there.
Any time you apply any regulation to a market, it's going to distort the market. Sometimes the benefit to society at large will outweigh the cost to those involved in the market, and sometimes not.
At the end of the day, we don't really care about net neutrality for its own sake, right? We care that we can all get an internet connection that functions as we expect it to. Making a bunch of rules about what ISPs can and can't do is one way to work towards that goal, but I'm really not convinced it's the best way.
Whether or not Comcast should be allowed to do the merger is a different conversation, and is also a problem that would be solved if there was real competition.
It costs time and money to invest in infrastructure, so that is an actual limit on the supply of bandwidth.
It always comes back to the point that Mike Masnick has made a million times - if there was real broadband competition, most of these problems would take care of themselves.
It's two different metrics, but at the same time, those who use a lot over time are more likely to be using it at any given moment, so the two are definitely related. And bandwidth isn't infinite, so I wouldn't call it artificial scarcity. It may only be scarce because of ISP's unwillingness to invest enough in infrastructure, but that's still actual scarcity.
Startups, nonprofits, and small ventures are always at a disadvantage in terms of marketing and other treatment. They have less to offer in terms of money or name-recognition or any number of things, so they have less bargaining power and won't be able to get deals like the big players can.
While I don't like the effect this could have on the VC market, I don't think that banning zero rating deals is the right way to deal with it.
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They took a modern Twitter Retweet and made it an old-style where you put "RT" and then copy the Tweet. Gettr calls them "posts" and "reposts" so putting "RT" makes no sense unless you're really bad at spelling.
Import vs the platform editing your import
I noticed that some of the Tweets they imported converted a standard Twitter Retweet to an old style RT, which seems to cross a line - it's one thing to let a user recreate their Twitter feed on a new platform, but when the platform itself is actively modifying imported content to copy Twitter, that seems like a different action.
Jack's not a Democrat
Agree with most of your article, just wanted to clarify - DC votes about 96% Democratic. The primaries are essentially the election here, so everyone runs as a Democrat. It's stupid, but we as a country have decided that an exactly two party system is the only possible way to have a government.
Jack is a conservative and a terrible person. When they put in physical barriers to keep people from u-turning through the cycletrack down the middle of PA Ave, Jack made the DC Dept of Transportation leave space in front of the Council office building so he could u-turn into his parking space out front.
How do I know that? Because advocates FOIA'ed it.
Communications companies
I assume this means they're now acknowledging their role as telecommunications providers and are eager to be regulated as a utility
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I hope he's reminded of that next time he's looking for handouts from the city for stadium improvements because his hobby business isn't making enough money.
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In no way do I mean to justify what this cop did - it sounds like a bad cop is getting what he deserves. But forcing cops to live where they work has consequences that we can't ignore.
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That makes more sense
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Even more, I don't know what consumers really get out of this. What happens if, for example, Facebook agrees to this and then doesn't comply? Do I get anything? Am I part of some class action where eight years from now they send me a check for $2.38?
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2) No, my point is that all media coverage is failing in the same way Lauer did, and I don't quite understand why so many people are jumping on him and letting so many others slide.
Why jump on Lauer?
There's no question that Lauer did a terrible job, but I don't know how this was a surprise to anyone.
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If I was on the board at Charter and my CEO showed such a lack of understanding of basic supply and demand, I would fire him before the earnings call was over. Yes, sure, people demand less of things they get for free. That's definitely how it works.
Also, it's funny how much this sounds like hysterics over P2P a few years ago and how that was destroying the industry because college kids now had free internet.
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Any time you apply any regulation to a market, it's going to distort the market. Sometimes the benefit to society at large will outweigh the cost to those involved in the market, and sometimes not.
At the end of the day, we don't really care about net neutrality for its own sake, right? We care that we can all get an internet connection that functions as we expect it to. Making a bunch of rules about what ISPs can and can't do is one way to work towards that goal, but I'm really not convinced it's the best way.
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It always comes back to the point that Mike Masnick has made a million times - if there was real broadband competition, most of these problems would take care of themselves.
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While I don't like the effect this could have on the VC market, I don't think that banning zero rating deals is the right way to deal with it.
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