Irrespective of the words and icons displayed in these DOM objects, they all carry the same message: "The news on this page *does not matter*."
The owners of news services view the news as a necessary evil. They aren't a news organization: they are an annoying pop-up and cookie-setting factory with an inconvenient, vestigial news entity attached to it. News exists on sufferance, and if it was possible to do away with it altogether, the owners would.
9/
Cory Doctorow
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2026-03-11 20:48:33 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…j80c
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