A bunch of stupid bullies who don’t understand the concepts of “fair use” and “internet” (or more likely, understand them very well but don’t like them), think they have enough clout to dictate terms. Well, the millions and millions and billions of Wetmachine readers will have to find their own way to AP stories from now on. I’m not going to link to them. Take that, you wankers!
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Load More...I think fewer people would be excited about moving to Mars if they knew that they’d have to live in deep, shielded caves and that still might not be enough to save them. Good piece by @caleb_scharf on the hazards of living without a global magnetic field https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/death-on-mars1/?amp
Until I craft my own, this will stand as the best description of what I think is happening to us in the politics and information spheres. I shared it two days ago, reupping now. My frustration with the press derives from its failure to see and act on this. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/16/20991816/impeachment-trial-trump-bannon-misinformation
So...he lied. In the midst of an election. About the GOP candidate.
This is what we call "election disinformation"—and anyone pretending Trump's 2020 campaign manager didn't know he was falsely using a picture from 16 years ago to plump his boss has to be, on some level, joking. https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1229216082457743361Trump's campaign manager tweeted a dramatic photo of Air Force One at Daytona, saying ".@realDonaldTrump won the #Daytona500 before the race even started."
The shot was of George W. Bush's plane leaving in 2004. Parscale deleted three hours later.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/16/politics/parscale-tweet-daytona-500-air-force-one-photo/index.htmlit's now more than 2,000. More than 2,000 former DOJ officials are calling on A.G. Barr to resign.
"Political interference ... is anathema to the Department's core mission and to its sacred obligation to ensure equal justice under the law." https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/1100-doj-officials-call-william-barr-resign/story?id=69030388“We can’t sit by and watch it happen” @DeadlineWH https://twitter.com/deadlinewh/status/1229533523738058754
"I didn't take this decision to sign this letter lightly, but the time has come to let the current DOJ employees know we are with them... [Barr's] no longer enabling the president to destroy the rule of law, he's now the driving force" - @FrankFigliuzzi1 w/ @NicolleDWallace
As Open Source Journalism continues to grow, the shoe will be on the other foot in about 10 years. Then when AP wants to source a story from some video blog they will get sued. Which by the way Michael Yon did that very thing against Reuters.
As I understand things, AP was people who quoted a few sentences and then linked to the AP site.
I’ve seen a bunch of people who have been extremely liberal in their interpretation of “fair use” with respect to some Wetmachine articles from time to time. It would be more annoying if a giant concern like AP did it. But if AP wants to quote a few sentences from a Wetmachine article and include a link to the original, that’s fine by me. That’s the whole idea of the web, for Pete’s sake.
I don’t think we should boycott: I think every blogger should link to as many AP stories as possible! Maybe write a little script to generate the links automatically. Put up an RSS aggregation. Quote like hell.
Make them pay a fortune for unproductive legal action. And after bloggers jointly raise their AP’s Page Rank in Google, how are they going to claim damages?
Yes, I agree that it is a much better form of social protest to link like crazy than to boycott links. Stick it to them!