It’s fascinating to watch people here uncritically buying into the narratives around recent legislative efforts to make tech giants start paying news agencies for the news stories they scrape, narratives that begin by assuming that “News” is all dirty corrupt billionaires but Silicon Valley Tech Giants are our friendly underdogs who desperately need defending.
Like. We all know the big businesses in both industries are rotten and corrupt, why are we so stupid as to picks sides when we should be looking at the actual issues here.
Like, for example, the way google et all are trying to eat EVERYBODYs lunch – they want to scrape everybody’s content and serve it as their own. They want your audience to look at them instead of you. And it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a Big Evil Media Baron or a small recipe blogger who pays their rent from the merch bought by a few thousand fans who (used to) find them through a google search, it’s wrong either way.