Siege thread, overview and analysis regarding the recent @mindgeek kerfuffle.
1/50 A crippling blow has just been dealt to the porn industry, and the long-term viability of the Web as a whole, and we have @LailaMickelwait to thank. Credit to her for achieving what I did not think likely - decimation of a huge portion of MindGeek's 'user-generated' content.
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This post is dedicated to @WorldEdgeDG and @slatestarcodex, just as it is to Andrew Anglin, Alex Jones, and every other canary in this collapsing, deluge-bound mine of information management. As this account may now be in its last throes, I figure I may as well go big or go home. McLuhan observed that the essence of a medium itself served to generate a particular style of consumer. As the most sophisticated brainwashing tool of all time, the World Wide Web, dominated by global capital, demonstrates perfectly the light-speed fulfilment of this supposition.

May 3rd marks this year's 'World Press Freedom Day', and in dedication, I have committed to outlining the start of an escape path from the public and private sector hegemony that operates a press entirely contrary to their supposed aims. Any instance of a delegation of a role away from oneself creates the opportunity for the new authority to use their power without concern for the original individual, or group, or project, or institution.

@Styx666Official Hot take: Holt's coverage of Honkler was largely on-point, with the central premise (an expression of 'supremacism') aside.
Dissociation, brought on by abuse and over-stimulation (drugs) is an easy catalyst for violence, and the clown frogs are very reminiscent of interwar Dada. @Styx666Official The rapidity with which the meme, a coping mechanism employed in light of existentialism and complete dejection sans any other recourse, has been catching on, speaks volumes of the perception of the power balance that is being expressed by this portion of society.

@GTTVappliance If you mean in regards to infrastructure costs, then I agree entirely. But that is far from the only complication met from openly centralised and commercial services. Might I ask, why has Blust not ventured into music or literature content? @GTTVappliance Netflix spent over $6 billion on content acquisition last year, and for this year, they've added an extra $2 billion onto that. This was including $60 million for War Machine alone. This was about 54% of their revenue, and ~58% of expenses.