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It's no longer controversial to claim that #BigTech is a parasite on the #news business. But there's still a raging controversy over the nature of the parasitism, and, much more importantly, *what to do about it*.

1/ EFF's banner for the save n...
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This week on @EFF's Deeplinks blog, I kick off a new series on the abusive relationship between Big Tech and the news, analyzing four different dirty practices and proposing policy answers to all four:

eff.org/deeplinks/2023…

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A leak from the @EU_EDPB reveals that the #EU's top #privacy regulator is about to overrule the Irish Data Protection Commission and declare #Facebook's business model illegal, banning #surveillance-based #ads without explicit consent:

noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-pe… 1/ A theater proscenium. Over the proscenium, in script, are th
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In some ways, this is unsurprising. Since the #GDPR's beginning, it's been crystal clear that the intention of the landmark privacy regulation was to extinguish commercial surveillance and ring down the curtain on #ConsentTheater. 3/
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This week on my podcast, I read my @Medium column, "Big Tech Isn’t Stealing News Publishers’ Content," on how the news media's focus on charging tech firms to link to them is totally misguided, and misses the real issue: the rigging of the ad market.

doctorow.medium.com/big-tech-isnt-… 1/ A row of newspaper boxes on a lonely sidewalk; their windows
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Countries all over the world - France, Australia, Brazil and now Canada (#BillC11)- have fallen in love with the idea that the answer to the news media's woes is to create a new licensable copyright over "snippets" of news that users post to social media. 3/
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