the latest in an ongoing series
of hugely entertaining farces on the other side of the rock
"so much for facebook’s commitment to free speech,” a mail online spokesperson said. hilarious.
honestly, you'd think scomo would be relieved that at least one social media giant isn't sharing the damning details of his government's cover-up of a rape in parliament house.
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there's a very simple solution - don't use fakebook
don't support a political party - don't vote for them
don't support a business - shop elsewhere
idgi
why are these folk relying on a profiteering proxy to consume their news anyway?
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 22:00,
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Australia is imposing regulation on online news providers (such as Google and Facebook), who are throwing their toys out of the pram.
I don't use FB, never have, but I get how and why people become dependant on it.
I'm not sure I entirely agree with what Australia is doing, FB and Google's news feeds tend to link to the original source rather than stealing the news per se.
I think the bigger problem is with targetted fake news and radicalising bubble algorithms, and I'm not sure that this Australian law even addresses that.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 22:18,
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traditional media was alway beholden to their advertisers though
bar pbs - how are online advertising conduits any different? market forces an all that
see also: ticket touts
and the recent spotify discussion below
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 22:48,
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not sure I agree with what facebook are doing
blocking emergency services seems a bit foot, aim, fire
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Pardon my ignorance but does anybody ever contact emergency services via Facebook?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 15:10,
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In an actual emergency?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 17:09,
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Natural selection is an awesome thing.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 19:51,
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there's no mystery here
just warring businesses, and those who are drawn into the conflict.
old media is horrified by its collapse following the hegemony of online social and news media.
the so-called 'rivers of gold' have dried up and worse, new media upstarts are super-branding their content and effectively stealing their own meagre advertising revenue.
even worse, the political will of moguls like murdoch, exerted through their editorial content, is being corrupted by aggregators that care nothing for their poisonous rhetoric.
so old media - ok, murdoch - says to his lackey, the prime minister, scott morrison, 'make the bastards pay for any of my content they allow their audience to share or otherwise consume.'
facebook and google think, fuck you old media. we're not paying for your shit and it's no skin off our nose if your backwater nation loses access to our services.
scomo digs his heels in, cos he doesn't like murdoch's grip on his shaven testes, and facebook delivers on its threat.
because the legislation is as vague as it is ridiculous, facebook cannot initially define what content falls into the category of chargeable media and wipes the bally lot. including, unfortunately, a whole bunch of government, charity and social service pages.
the wider media have field day with this pr wobble, and lash out, somewhat cautiously in some cases.
facebook are hastily restoring the good stuff, but there's no way they'll accede to murdoch's demands.
i'm actually looking forward to google turning off search in aus altogether.
we'll all have to use bing and scomo will be booted out as soon as an election can be called.
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woah - cool - can't wait for season two
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 1:43,
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I'm no fan of Rupert, I have a feeling the world would have been a nicer place if the fucker died young
but all this waffle about new media and super-branding, whatever that is, hides the fact that the journalists who are creating the content aren't getting the money for people reading it, google and facebook are. More than half the people who see news stories in their google results wont click on the link but will simply read the headline and the description on google. So the advertisers spend their money where the eyeballs are, google, and the places that pay journalists don't get any money. Google takes almost 6 of every 10 advertising dollars spent in Australia, and they paid 1.5% tax last financial year on revenues. Google and facebook didn't used to do this as their revenue model, they've just exploited their free access to other peoples content to keep all the advertising revenue, and investigative journalism is fucking dying around the world. It's little different to the early days of the internet where people stole whole sites and stuck them in an iframe on their own sites and pretended it was their content, until that was legislated against.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 2:10,
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“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make. And could just as easily make differently – David Graeber 1961-2020”
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 2:15,
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I disagree with the last part. If change was easy we'd see a lot more of it.
It's hard enough changing one fucker's mind, let alone this horde of stupid assholes with heads full of nonsense that seem to be proliferating around the world
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 2:23,
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it takes just five seconds...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdQn7c62zHM
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 2:26,
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ah, northamptonshire's finest
Yes, perhaps there is a way....
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 2:32,
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you knows it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFCpUZVyXgg
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 2:36,
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i totally made up super-branding ;)
i'm sure you couldn't care less, but it means setting your own brand in any superposition to the brand of the thing you're presenting.
like your iframe example, where the original content's banner is not shown.
You're not declaring the thing as your own, but the audience will make that connection themselves.
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well, google didn't turn up a single definition other than "a really good brand" so it must be a pretty niche term
I got a nice personal thank you letter from the guardian legal once by giving them screenshots and links of facebook ads that were showing guardian articles but linking to their own stuff when you clicked on them. facebook, off course, somehow finds it difficult to police scam artists that by coincidence happen to paying facebook for ads. I mean, they have an algorithm that can tell if a women is pregnant before she knows herself, but finding out if advertising is linking to content that isn't their own website has their tech guys baffled, I tells ya
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 3:51,
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i mean i made it up just now
it's new. like a baby.
use it in an email today /ac
also, i was on the executive of the canberra times for a couple of turns. i gotta say i don't got much sympathy for the paper industry after that stint.
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ahh, I took the wink emoji to mean sarcasm
seem like a good one, and it's not being used. I'll try and use it today as well to see if we can get the ball rolling on it. End Super-Branding Now!
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 4:09,
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We start using it in emails and any recipient who's baffled and googles it will end up on this page, just saying ...
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Anyone who uses Arsebook to determine their current view of the world and themselves mainly .....
Should get to fuck. Aussies v Facebook. Gets popcorn out and goes to sleep. They deserve each other
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Thu 18 Feb 2021, 23:27,
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^
They're all cunts really. Let them eat each other.
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 7:19,
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right, both of you are now barred from any london pub
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 8:10,
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Right now is a bad example
Everyone's banned from pubs.
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Fri 19 Feb 2021, 9:35,
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ahh, you're beginning to comprehend our reach and power
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 19 Feb 2021, 11:53,
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