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> They are like electrical company that provides you with cables and electricity. Well, except that they don't provide anything similar to cables or electricit
by denton-scratch 4y ago
> They are like electrical company that provides you with cables and electricity.
Well, except that they don't provide anything similar to cables or electricity; what they distribute is content. How's that not a publisher?
- mrtksn 4y ago> they distribute is content. How's that not a publisher? Because they are not involved in the publishing? They are a platform where the publishers engage in publishing.
- philistine 4y agoThey're publishers to me. They produce, even if it's with computers, a landing page where they recommend different. They produce recommendations. I don't get how that's not publishing.
- mrtksn 4y agoI agree that the lines are blurry. They definitely have a publisher and producer aspect with their discovery algorithms and their monetisation.
- denton-scratch 4y agoI don't think the lines are blurry. Discover algorithms and monetisation are not content. I understand the desire to protect indy content from megacorps litigation. Some kind of protection is needed. But swearing that black is white is a "solution" that's bound to cause new problems.