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EU article 13 passed, apparently.
| That bizarre law huh.
| Lucky for me I don't live in the EU.
| ^
Well, Eurog/u/rls, wave goodbye to your freedom of press.
| This seems really like shitty news for us. Wtf is happening everywhere? NN repeal somewhere, article13 elsewhere...
| Well, corporations rule the world because they can buy politicians. The internet companies bought politicians and told them to repeal NN. Seems pretty straightforward to me
| >>324675
Freedom of press is an illusion as it depends on the big money. Workers can buy a Newspaper, but Capitalists can buy the publisher.
How can you be independent from companys if you rely on their advertisments?
How can you be independent if your rely on increasing profits and you need to mainstream, sensationalize, boulevardize and trivialize your content?
Just look at the media-landscape in the USA. It's all a big walt-disney shit-show only opposed by more stupid nazists.
| >>324942 There's a thing called investigative journalists that work based on small funds. They usually also post some very interesting articles or books.
| It isn't through yet actually.
| >>324946
Investigative journalism exists in some countries, but it drowns in the sea of trivial-sensational-boulevard mass media.
Also the rich collaborate with dictatorships and autocracys to get rid of them. And what do you think is all this surveillance and "war on terror" measurements good for? Hint: it's not really about common peoples security.
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| It's supposedly now under discussion with EU politicians.