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    1. Jesse Brown‏Verified account @JesseBrown 2 May 2020

      Anyone notice that the newspaper founded to champion free markets, free enterprise, de-regulation and small government is now ~50% corporate welfare propaganda?pic.twitter.com/5wtQfEp3gX

      19 replies 107 retweets 334 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2020
      Replying to @JesseBrown

      Getting Facebook & Google to pay for the links they profit from is not "corporate welfare" unless you think all copyright laws are corporate welfare.

      6 replies 3 retweets 21 likes
    3. Jesse Brown‏Verified account @JesseBrown 2 May 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      You do know that newspapers can flip a switch that stops Google & Facebook from posting their content, right?

      2 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
    4. Neil Morrison‏ @ndmorrison 2 May 2020
      Replying to @JesseBrown @HeerJeet

      So, either pull your content from the largest platforms or accept those platforms get all the revenue from people viewing your content? Reminds me of arguments in favour of unpaid internships

      2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    5. Jesse Brown‏Verified account @JesseBrown 2 May 2020
      Replying to @ndmorrison @HeerJeet

      3rd option: accept that monetizing social media hits is both terrible for the quality of news and puts the fate of your news business in the hands of malevolent tech dicks, and instead build subscription-based businesses funded by people who actually care about your product.

      2 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
    6. Neil Morrison‏ @ndmorrison 2 May 2020
      Replying to @JesseBrown @HeerJeet

      So subscription gate your content on all major platforms? I can see this working for the NYT and the Economist. You see it working for the Ottawa Citizen. Papers seeing COVID spikes still face extinction from ad collapse. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/03/newsonomics-what-was-once-unthinkable-is-quickly-becoming-reality-in-the-destruction-of-local-news/ …

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    7. Neil Morrison‏ @ndmorrison 2 May 2020
      Replying to @ndmorrison @JesseBrown @HeerJeet

      You need to somehow demonstrate that subscription revenue alone can replace previous subscription+ad revenue. Outside the NYT or philanthropic backed papers, where has that happened?

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    8. Jesse Brown‏Verified account @JesseBrown 2 May 2020
      Replying to @ndmorrison @HeerJeet

      I do? Why would you imagine that the next viable business model for news will account for every dollar lost to disruption? What entitles this industry to perpetual double-digit profit margins at corporate scale?

      2 replies 2 retweets 6 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2020
      Replying to @JesseBrown @ndmorrison

      What entitles Facebook & Google to profit from work done by others? There business model is an artifice created by laws, which can be changed to allow for more even distribution of revenue.

      1 reply 2 retweets 11 likes
    10. Jesse Brown‏Verified account @JesseBrown 2 May 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @ndmorrison

      The consent of those others to let FB & Google do so?

      2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2020
      Replying to @JesseBrown @ndmorrison

      The same logic used to justify paying people sweatshop wages -- "they consented to it, didn't they?" But consent to a bad bargain only exists in a legal frame-work, which can be changed if needed.

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        1. Neil Morrison‏ @ndmorrison 2 May 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @JesseBrown

          The same logic is used to justify unpaid internships. "Don't like it, don't do it."

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2020
          Replying to @ledrapeaurouge @JesseBrown @ndmorrison

          Not so weird if you consider it applies to writers as well as media outlets. There were people who were making a living off blogging in 2008 who can't now because Google has eaten up all the ad revenue.

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        2. Jesse Brown‏Verified account @JesseBrown 2 May 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @ndmorrison

          I'll ignore the weird comparison of newspaper companies with sweatshop labourers and ask instead: in your proposed legal frame-work, does everybody have to pay to link to other sites, or just those two companies?

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 2 May 2020
          Replying to @JesseBrown @ndmorrison

          I think the large social networks can properly be classified as public utilities and regulated as such. I'll leave it to the policy wonks to work out the details (I believe several countries are experimenting with ideas on this).

          3 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
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