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It may be cheap, but when YouTube (as one example) takes down a channel that may have thousands of hours of content, that's gone forever unless someone archived it and is willing to make it available.
Can Twitter even manage that, given the well known issues with bots?
You didn't ask about the pre-Elon days. You asked about Elon, so multiple people have responded accordingly. Being unable to rebut them, you've chosen to try to divert the topic to something else.
>clearly you think I am somehow aligned politically with his views
I do. But I'll disengage at this point, given your insincerity.
That would be a change of subject, wouldn't it? I suspect you aren't interested in any evidence anyone will present on what Elon has done, given your tu quoque reply.
It's more complicated than just the ability to post. Never discount the power of the algorithm. And that can be tinkered with:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-15/musk-forc...
If you think that about reddit mods, I can only imagine how you feel about HN.
Serious question, because I see it so often: what are these fillers meant to achieve?
Even with some backup, the Internet has not always proven itself to be a reliable means of archiving things. Companies (and their websites) vanish, and not always with a working archive somewhere. YouTube channels routinely vanish, along with their content, and in many cases it's on you to back something up (using third-party libraries).
I wish most teams did it this way, but it is almost always the case that time is burned going over what they did. I feel like that could always be done asynchronously in a place like Slack.
The dynamics here in Quebec are obviously much different. France is a francophone country, while Quebec is a francophone province within a largely anglophone country.
The state media here has long had bilingual offerings. That aside, the French media here in Quebec doesn't really make money. They are kept afloat by government subsidies (this is true of a lot of the English media as well - most get handouts). So spinning off some sort of English version, for multiple reasons, is a non-starter. Besides, if you're an anglophone in places like Montreal or Gatineau, you've got English media anyway.
And besides that, in countries where health insurance is to some extent or entirely public, you don't tend to see a rise in rates since health care is considered a kind of right.