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The postal service sells stamps. They already make money off every letter sent. Does it matter if it’s a stamp or a junk mail flyer?
by prepend 3y ago
The postal service sells stamps. They already make money off every letter sent. Does it matter if it’s a stamp or a junk mail flyer?
- kennywinker 3y agoIt matters to me if my mailbox is full of junkmail instead of letters from friends. Idk what point you’re trying to make, but at issue here is that journalism is being starved to death by sites like facebook that suck up all the profits and attention but don’t provide any of the service that journalism provided. That’s bad for canadians. This law may be the wrong way to fix this problem, but to talk about rules and principals and analogies without considering the actual consequences is pathological. We’ve got no sharing news on facebook here now. If nothing is done, this is essentially where we’ll be in a handful of years anyway.
- prepend 3y ago> journalism is being starved to death by sites like facebook No, journalism is being starved by digital peer to peer communication. Facebook is the thing. People being able to say “hey, did you see this?” instead of needing to read a newspaper. And of course, the real problem is that newspapers sold their own ads that no one cares about any more (classified). I think newspapers dying is a problem and would like them not to. But taxing or forcing Facebook to do something is not a solution and it won’t affect the future of newspapers.