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Ars TechnicaMusk calls French news agency’s copyright case against X “bizarre”
France has required online platforms to pay for news since 2019.
IPng Networks@arstechnica quelle surprise.
MikeD N7URH@arstechnica We all saw this coming in the 90's, nobody wants to pay for the news or anything online. "Information should be free"
Panopticola@zondance @arstechnica Sure but we aren't paying strictly for information, rather a certain amount is for the crafting of its presentation and contextualization plus analysis. If we could as readers know that we are paying strictly for the labour and hard costs then it is easier to justify.
Non-profit news and entertainment agencies that don't extract rent from collective value and enrich the rentiers, and compensate fairly, are in short supply. Small fish in a pond of sharks.
As eaters of news we can support our nourishment by subscribing and such, but it quickly becomes problematic for most. Micro transactions aren't the answer either. The information economy is fundamentally commodified and alienated, still.
Oreo Teeth@arstechnica I am *almost* tempted to dust off my account and post links to every French news outlet I can find.
Having such an internal conflict right now. I'd love to cost him more money but I don't want to give him my time or data.
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Lee 🌏@arstechnica
Look! Another thing about Social Media that Elon has absolutely no idea about...
Look! Another thing about Social Media that Elon has absolutely no idea about...
burndive@arstechnica
Musk gets a lot of hate here on Mastodon, but in this case, I agree with his sentiment.
And also knowing Musk his course of action might just be to ban all links to French news sites from non-Blue subscribers.
And why wouldn't he?
If Mastodon servers had to pay up for users posting links to news sites, what would they do?