Re:Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
by Sir_Substance on Friday June 02, 2017 @12:39PM
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>You can't expect every industry to be reduced to what can be produced by hobbyists working for free in their spare time.
You're implying that it's in some fashion my job to care about those industries.
I don't care what happens to buzzfeed, and I don't care what happens to the wallstreet journal. /My life/ and /my needs/ and met regardless of their existence, so I really don't give a shit whether they are sustainable or not.
Re:Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
by jbreckmckye on Friday June 02, 2017 @01:03PM
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Do you care what happens to your newspaper? Because it's not the Buzzfeeds of the world who are suffering because people like you feel entitled to free content. It's the publishers who can actually hold our institutions and leaders to account.
Re:Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
by Sir_Substance on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:45PM
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>Do you care what happens to your newspaper?
Not really, they're owned by long serving members of one of the major parties. Their impartiality is directly proportional to the time until the next Icelandic election.
Yes the internet came about because of academics and hobbyists playing around in their spare time. We as people who often came up during that time have a habit of over-weighting that. The internet is not a side project anymore. The internet is the future of every industry - and absolutely the future of every content creation industry.
You can't expect every industry to be reduced to what can be produced by hobbyists working for free in their spare time.