xanthamgum
XanthamGum
xanthamgum

Reborn of the old-Gawker ashes, rises the phoenix of Gizmodo, to post three times a day about how social media platforms have media obligations, but don’t engage free speech concerns—and how regulating speech is easy in any event, across 200 countries and billions of users.

I have no issues with this.

I’m going with the venture capitalists as they doomed a business that we don’t like this time, but the next business might be one we like.

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Yesterday evening, fans enjoyed seeing her in the spotlight. Some are now drawing art of Nakamura and meme-ing about how “adorable” she is and how she should be “protected at all costs.” While much of the praise she’s received seems rooted in genuine admiration, some have argued that more extreme variations on these

Mexico has universal healthcare.

Fun fact: Nobody deserves anything.

That’s fair, since I don’t think Europeans realize how weird and dumb - not to mention unnecessary - any displacement below 3.5L sounds to most of us Americans. 

We know how weird it sounds, and we feel really bad for you.  Big V8s are fun.

What’s racist? 

Two points here: For people supposedly raised from birth with a fear of being killed by police, you all sure act like you wanna get killed by police. Holding the phone in your hand (when you know that might get misidentified as a gun. Not likely but possible), screaming and yelling at the police. Interfering in what

/cancels UberChopper request

Shit like that happens all the time in the USA but you dont see the videos because our media hates cops (OR videos showing cops doing nice things just makes people like you mad and isn't profitable.)

Why? Why does he need to be? Stop shoehorning identity politics into a generic Star Wars action game. If it makes sense to the story, sure, do whatever, but let’s not make him gay just to check off some diversity check boxes.

This is a pretty fucked up comment. 

There is too much news content being created. Nobody in media wants to admit it, but that’s the core problem here. Oversaturation.

Millenial liberals (like Tynes) have made Twitter call-outs into their own official channels. When people started a campaign to get Tynes’ publisher to drop her, how do you think they did so? On Twitter.

Let’s see...a bunch of giz gays jump to defend an openly gay guy that attempts to insight violence.

YouTube’s sloppy messaging aside, demonetizing rather than banning Crowder—not to mentioned failing to cite a specific policy the channel had broken—had the effect of pissing off just about everyone following the day-long blunder, from Maza and other journalists to Senator Ted Cruz, and of course, Googlers themselves.