Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
by Guthur on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @06:41AM
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Not at all. The OP was maintaining because the brand changed hands that it was somehow a scam, that feels quite disingenuous.
Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
by kasey_junk on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:58AM
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Newsweek was a bastion of print media for decades in the US. It would be similar to someone turning the BBC into a Christian news organization.
The organization that took over Newsweek did it with the intention to improve their own credibility by banking on the name, while removing all the people and processes that built that credibility in the first place. If it’s not an outright scam it’s certainly approaching it.
Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
by pvg on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:08PM
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that feels
How would you assess the accuracy of that feeling without knowing or finding out about the facts being discussed? You're saying 'I know nothing about this at all but that isn't germane because the OP is giving me a disingenuous vibe'. It's a curiously strident, stridently incurious position.
Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
by tclancy on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:05AM
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Consider the anti-tracking browser extensions that gain enough popularity they get bought by ad tracking companies. Is that also legitimate?
Re:Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
by Guthur on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:22PM
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Sure it is if it's a legal transaction, I'm really not sure why it's so difficult to understand.
The problem here is that many of you are projecting your own brand of morals on these deals, and many people may not share that perspective.
These things seem germane to the discussion, though.