Tech, monopolies, censorship
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This has to be one of the worst miscalculations in recent media-corp memory. They can’t draw flies to watch their programming for free and somehow believed more people would subscribe if they had to pay for it. Sayonara CFO.
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@antipodean Netflix is a different beast. They have shitloads of programming, but not a lot of it stimulating me, and worse just another reminder of the awful culture war. However I think their audience reduction right now is largely a result of inflation and people having a gutsful of masks ‘n lockdowns. People are mentally and physically wanting to go outside now that the pandemic has (fingers crossed) subsided; and losing a month salary per year to inflation makes a working person weigh their immediate options: gasoline or netflix? groceries or cable tv? And they’re cutting the cord.
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@Kid-Chocolate said in Tech, monopolies, censorship:
This has to be one of the worst miscalculations in recent media-corp memory. They can’t draw flies to watch their programming for free and somehow believed more people would subscribe if they had to pay for it. Sayonara CFO.
Update:
TERMINATED
Didn’t last a month. They pulled the plug. Heads gotsta roll…
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Good question.
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I am pleasantly surprised to see this published in this-current-era issue of The Nation. If all you did was read the text you could be forgiven thinking it was in The American Conservative.
“Painting neo-Nazi paramilitaries with an extensive record of war crimes as patriots helping refugees, all while working with a “disinformation” group that turned out to run interference for violent neo-Nazi formations—that’s the experience Biden’s new disinformation czar brings to the table.”
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Pendilum is swinging back. How do you say Dave Chapelle without saying Dave Chapelle?
“The updated Netflix Culture memo also includes a new section called “Artistic Expression,” explaining that the streamer will not “censor specific artists or voices” even if employees consider the content “harmful,” and bluntly states, “If you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you.”
Amen.
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This could have gone in any number of threads, I’ve posted related memes elsewhere, but i’ll post it here. This is now into it’s 7th day, no signs of ending, and one of the most revealing look-behind-the-curtain media embarrassments in living memory. People are starting to realize the so-called prestige Washington Post is a lot less like All The Presidents Men and instead closer to Carrie and Mean Girls.
Here’s a backgrounder:
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“The public appearance is that the inmates are running the Jeffrey Preston Bezos Asylum and that the Post has a completely upside-down idea of what constitutes an ethical lapse. A single retweet, swiftly retracted, is worth a month-long suspension. However calling out colleagues on a public timeline, siccing online mobs on them, leaking internal emails and refusing to comply with workplace directives are allowed to continue. Something stinks at the Washington Post and for once it’s not Dave Weigel.”
Update: (I think this and her lawsuit was her meltdown motivation the whole time.)
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Long-form read, but fascinating. I didn’t know anything about this guy.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/death-of-pink-ariel-pink
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This is starting to get interesting.
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/29/gops-gmail-feud-escalates
“The Republican National Committee fired the latest shot on Wednesday, when chairwoman Ronna McDaniel claimed in a statement to Axios that Google has "systematically attacked" its digital program.
“The RNC claims Google's Gmail, the nation's top email client, has been suppressing fundraising emails during strategically critical periods this year.
Google told Axios its spam filter is thoroughly apolitical, and that it's taking steps to ensure political messages aren't inadvertently flagged.“The RNC shared internal data showing regular and dramatic increases in the number of its fundraising and voter-activation emails being sent to Gmail recipients' spam folder.
Ordinarily, the committee said, Gmail flags up to 10% of its emails as spam.
“But it says during the final four days of every month since December 2021 — a crucial period for digital fundraising operations — that number has skyrocketed to 100% or close to it, even as the rate of emails marked as spam by recipients remains steady.”
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PayPal to charge users $2500 per incident of violating new speech rules