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Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by mordae on Friday July 31, 2020 @07:15AM (#24007558)
OMG, this is golden. It's a race to the bottom. It ends up completely destroying states and replacing them with corporations.
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Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by mark_l_watson on Friday July 31, 2020 @08:06AM (#24007838)
I like your comment, not sure if you are joking though. A few decades ago when I started reading William Gibson’s cyber punk sci-fi, I often wondered if the corporate run enclaves in his stories would anticipate real events.
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Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by zentiggr on Friday July 31, 2020 @10:20AM (#24008806)
Neal Stephenson - "Snow Crash". Even the U.S. Government is reduced to a "franchulate".
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Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news by Cakez0r on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:37AM (#24019098)
If the police are defunded, I'd bet that private security companies would fill the void and we'd be well on our way to "Stephensonion" being the next "Orwellian"!
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