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Re:Response to Google open letter by jddj on Monday August 17, 2020 @08:45AM (#24186677)
The journalists doing good work would be almost entirely excluded by this law.

This money would go to an organisation which largely peddles outrage and division.

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Re:Response to Google open letter by clouddrover on Monday August 17, 2020 @10:57AM (#24187899)
> This money would go to an organisation which largely peddles outrage and division.

Frankly that's Google, Facebook, and Twitter. They are aimed at maximising engagement and outrage does that for them. They keep feeding people what they think they want to see and the further down the rabbit hole they go the weirder and more extreme it gets.

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Re:Response to Google open letter by brokenmachine on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @02:16AM (#24195791)
> Frankly that's Google, Facebook, and Twitter. They are aimed at maximising engagement and outrage does that for them.

Please, do a google image search for "daily telegraph cover", and then give me your description of the Murdoch news media.

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