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matklnz

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matklnz··on Are New York’s Free LinkNYC Internet Kiosks Tracking Your Movements?
I always read these like "as someone who leans libertarian, I'm starting to realise libertarianism is a bad idea"
matklnz··on Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi
What's the origin of the money?
matklnz··on Alphabet Backs GitLab's Quest to Surpass Microsoft's GitHub
So, like the one there is already that you have to pay for?
matklnz··on Former Columnist Jailed for Facebook Criticism of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi
Civilian dictatorship, such an euphemism for "democracy"
matklnz··on The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media
>Does every journalist really "create controversies where there are none?"

Yes.

>Is every news story really an attempt to "divide society to get you hooked on news?"

Maybe not every, but yes. Not only to get you hooked on news, also to advance certain political ideas which depend on the journalist/medium.

>Do you also believe meteorologists gin up their weather forecasts with storms for better ratings?

I do. I'm not saying they make up storms, but they could very well make things look more grave than they are so people listen to them.

matklnz··on The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media
But that's the job of a journalist... to create controversies where there are none. To divide society to get you hooked on news.