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• On the post: Jimmy Kimmel’s Firing Comes As Feckless TV Networks Lobby Trump To Destroy Remaining Media Consolidation Limits

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2025 @ 11:07am

  The problem is that those "academics and experts" have had no real recourse to influence policymakers, especially in the face of a Republican Party that has made a concerted effort for decades to not only ignore but outright discredit them so they can't stand in the way of letting billionaires and big corporations do whatever they want. Having the right course of action on your side doesn't mean much when you don't have any way of convincing the right people of it, or of getting the right people in position to enact it.

• On the post: Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 21 Jun, 2025 @ 04:19am

  I wonder if part of what makes people think Bluesky or any other social media is an echo chamber is precisely because it isn't. Social media exposes you to a wide variety of perspectives from all across the political spectrum, and it's often easy to tune out those ideas you disagree with while listening to people who have more extreme versions of ideas you agree with. People who considered themselves leftists would have never dreamed of interacting with full-on communists, and the same with conservatives and fascists, but social media gives them much more of a voice. The result is that you, and those that think similarly to you, end up getting radicalized into the most absolutist version of your most core principles, whereas before the local ideology of the people you know would have been relatively stable and sane.

• On the post: Buc-ee’s Gas Station Chain Is Becoming The Monster Energy Of Gas Stations For Trademark Bullying

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 17 May, 2025 @ 02:16pm

  If some people can afford more justice than others, it's not truly justice.

• On the post: The Fake Government ‘Efficiency’ Agency Known As DOGE Already Faces Multiple Lawsuits

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 22 Jan, 2025 @ 07:45pm

  "DOGE is a very serious thing" meanwhile its acronym is a meme.

• On the post: Want Access To Every NFL Game? It’ll Cost You, Thanks To Fractured Streaming Deals

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2024 @ 10:51am

  If you're not a sports fan, you don't understand what it means to them. Sports fandom is like a religion, our outlet for our desire for intertribal warfare and xenophobia. Sports fans are like junkies that will jump through whatever hoops are necessary to get their fix, so leagues, networks, and other stakeholders can do whatever they want to them and they'll say "Thank you, may I have another?" They have no leverage to make sports work better for them because to stop following sports is unthinkable to them.

• On the post: Mysterious Malware Attack Destroys 600 Routers On One ISP In 72 Hours

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 17 Jun, 2024 @ 04:47pm

  If these rural customers voted for Republicans, they voted for "feckless regulatory oversight and muted competition". The real, root cause is decades of billionaire propaganda that they should be allowed to do whatever they want and making people more scared of "government overreach" than unaccountable corporations, coupled with taking advantage of the ignorance, prejudice, isolation, and disconnection of rural areas.

• On the post: YouTuber Has Video Demonitized Over Washing Machine Chime

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 31 May, 2024 @ 05:53am

  At some point, YouTube is going to have to come to terms that its Content ID system is broken and come up with something better.

  No it won't. It's performing exactly as its really intended: to frustrate the creation of content outside the legacy media ecosystem as much as legacy media can get away with.

• On the post: Instead Of Banning Books, Idaho Library Decides To Ban Kids In Response To New Law On ‘Inappropriate Books’

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 24 May, 2024 @ 08:58pm

  It is the Republicans, in the case of HB 710, that are harming the children just so a powerful minority of individuals could appease their political backers.

  Oh, they're totally protecting the children from harm, as long as you define the greatest harm to possibly befall a child to be making them less likely to vote Republican.

• On the post: Congressional Testimony On Section 230 Was So Wrong That It Should Be Struck From The Record

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2024 @ 03:45am

  I would argue that the current SCOTUS would add a new exception if it would disproportionately benefit conservatives.

• On the post: Congressional Testimony On Section 230 Was So Wrong That It Should Be Struck From The Record

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2024 @ 03:44am

  You're assuming they're actually interested in fixing the problems they claim to be fixing.

• On the post: No, The Internet Hasn’t Gotten Worse: Just Your Outlook

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2024 @ 03:16pm

  I suspect part of what's changed is that we've lost hope in the Internet getting better. The early Internet was full of trolls, spam, and the like, but it was thought that was just growing pains and once the Internet reached mass adoption there'd be a new golden age of communication, information, and discourse. Instead all the problems of the early Internet have just gotten worse, the whole thing is increasingly controlled by a handful of people willing and shockingly able to mold the world into what they want, and we're realizing that humanity is just like this.

• On the post: Elon Lost The Spam Wars To ‘Pussy In Bio’ Spam

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 03 Apr, 2024 @ 06:19pm

  Assuming he isn't being tasked with killing Twitter entirely. Some of the people that helped fund the purchase would be mighty interested in that...

• On the post: Justice Department Wants To Take Its Bite Out Of Apple

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2024 @ 08:12am

  something something super apps

  Did an Elon Musk stan contribute to this complaint?

• On the post: California State Senator Pushes Bill To Remove Anonymity From Anyone Who Is Influential Online

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2024 @ 08:05am

  "What the fuck is wrong with state lawmakers?" No one pays attention to them, at least during election season, as national-level politicians suck up all the oxygen. That pretty much sums it up.

• On the post: The Great Paywall Of Musk Will Consist Of $1/Year To Tweet

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2023 @ 08:25pm

  Welp, Twitter had a good run, but it's effectively dead now.

• On the post: Media Sites That Have Left Twitter Aren’t Missing The Traffic

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2023 @ 01:44am

  Unfortunately, I can see media companies making the argument "see? See?! You social media sites need us more than we need you, so pay your link tax dammit!" (Just ignore that Twitter was always a fraction of the size of Facebook...)

• On the post: Elon Musk Decides ‘Who Needs Headlines, When We Can Just Have Pretty Pictures?’; Suspends Account That Made Fun Of Him

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2023 @ 07:43am

  They would if Bluesky ever got out of beta, Threads had a single thing people wanted from a Twitter replacement, or people hadn't convinced themselves that federation and instances made Mastodon "too complicated".

• On the post: Elon Musk Decides ‘Who Needs Headlines, When We Can Just Have Pretty Pictures?’; Suspends Account That Made Fun Of Him

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 07 Oct, 2023 @ 07:40am

  The people who backed his purchase of Twitter are rationally counting on his trashing the place through his irrationality.

• On the post: ‘Pass It, Pass It, Pass It, Pass It, Pass It,’ The President Says About A Bill The GOP Says Will Be Useful To Silence LGBTQ Voices

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2023 @ 10:59am

  If the Heritage Foundation supporting KOSA wasn't enough to give Democrats second thoughts, Koby supporting it with nonsense about LGBT people "sexualizing kids" definitely should.

• On the post: Group Wants Fox News Philly Broadcast License Yanked For Airing Election Propaganda

  

  morganwick ( profile ), 12 Jul, 2023 @ 10:17am

  When ideas that seem so blatantly false and/or discredited are persistently believed by a large enough chunk of the country as to influence the course of politics and even pose a threat to democracy itself, completely impervious to the facts of the matter, it's easy to see why many on the left might have soured on free speech when the premise on which it rests - that people can and do rationally sort out competing claims to the truth and the best course of action - seems to be increasingly clearly and demonstrably false.

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