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Algernon D'AmmassaGift link: This guy is back to threatening to yank broadcast licenses if he or the president doesn’t like the war coverage.
This is totalitarian shit.
Ivey Janette McClelland@algernon And give those licenses to right-wing comedy festival news channels and televangelists who kiss Trump's ass.
Bruce Mirken@algernon The #NYTimes now makes you give them your email address to read a "free" article. For those who prefer not too, use this: https://archive.is/KRdku
Jeri Dansky@BruceMirken This is a gift link, and I could read it just fine without providing an email address. (And no, I don't have a NYT account.) Gift links are different from the metered free articles, which do require an email address as part of setting up a free account. Can you not read the linked article?
Also: Some of us have concerns about archive.is (and its related sites):
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
@jeridansky Thanks for the info on Archive Today, but when I clicked on the "gift link" I responded to, it demanded my email in order to read it.
@BruceMirken Hmm. I wonder why you see that and I don't. Gift links with an unlocked_article_code in the URL always work fine for me.
I'm running an ad blocker, but I imagine you are, too — and I don't know why that would make a difference. The gift link works when I click the link both in my iPhone app (Mona) and on the Mastodon website. Safari shows me the article just fine with no email required.
I see I have some old cookies from the NYT, but I haven't had an account there for ages.
@jeridansky Ya got me.
Conny Nasch@BruceMirken @jeridansky I use duckduckgo and do not have to do anything to read the gift link. (Also have no NYT on my pc.)
Huskify@jeridansky @BruceMirken FYI I was able to read the gift link on my end without a problem. Thank you for sharing.
@huskify @jeridansky Maybe the Times just hates me! 😂
@BruceMirken @huskify @jeridansky I would feel good about that, you must have got under their skin. FB is always threatening me 😂
SecondUniverse (she/her/they)@BruceMirken @algernon ok. But the headline says it all, right? The actual article is just more quotes etc.
mahadevank@algernon how about actually trying to win the war instead?
These are losers and cowards who want to win simply with media propaganda and tweets.
@mahadevank @algernon what about getting the hell out of there instead of sending 2500 marines? This is unreal, get rid of the tangerine terror!
For sure, i'm just comparing the approach to problem-solving here, which seems to be - lets tell a fraudulent story, rather than do the actual work required
Christoph Schmees@algernon
once upon a time this would have been called BLACKMAIL.
once upon a time this would have been called BLACKMAIL.
Micheline Andresa@algernon This is the weaponization of institutions against democracy. When a government threatens broadcasting licenses based on personal 'tastes' regarding war coverage, it stops governing and starts censoring. It’s a direct assault on the public's right to be informed without ideological filters. The road to totalitarianism begins exactly when the truth becomes a state-granted concession."
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