• towerful@programming.dev
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    22 hours ago

    No, mainstream media is part of capitalism.
    Specifically shitty mainstream media (I’m sure there are some mainstream media providers that aren’t shitty).

    This is a shitty product.
    This is a shitty product that is part of capitalism.
    This is a shitty product that is part of capitalism which happens to show mainstream media.

    But this isn’t mainstream media.

    Mainstream media would want in on the ad revenue. Mainstream media would facilitate & encourage this.

    This is just a shitty product from a shitty company capitalising on shitty practices.

    Edit:
    I guess “part of the same bullshit” is correct.
    But it’s placing the blame on the wrong thing

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      20 hours ago

      Yeah, I had to really masticate on my phrasing for a while and never really settled on a statement that reflected properly my true meaning. Glad you could see where I was coming from