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The courts have rarely treated content-based regulation of journalism with any sympathy.
Very disappointing indeed to have to treat content on this newspaper with the same scepticism as one treats the Mail.
But the initiative marks a shift in how the No. 1 online video site treats content created by its users.
There's an interesting moment where the majority of news consumption for a lot of the world is happening on phones – and you know a lot of the way news organisations are approaching it is porting over content from newspapers and magazines or treating content the same way they did for a website 15 years ago.
Repurposing, passing off, non-attribution – these are all disrespectful ways to treat content and people.
The indifference — and occasional contempt — with which Silicon Valley treats content businesses is laughable and offensive.
Instead, online publications increasingly treat content as low-paid, illiterate swill, commissioned by the ton to provide SEO ad inventory.
Plus, it treats content like a structured database, making it easier to surface related stories, videos, photos, and so on.
While the company intends to let anyone use the development environment, Weeby.co will treat content publication on their partner app stores as a premium service.
The algorithmically-sorted News Feed that treats content shared minutes or hours apart as completely distinct also doesn't fit modern media creation behaviors.
It makes sense that this group – a group who invented concepts like whitewalling on Facebook, where a third of users have deleted or deactivated entire social accounts – would gravitate toward an app that treats content as disposable.
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