Pretty sure AP is funded by newspapers

If the police lose, you really lose

If your organisation is big enough to have a press office of more than 4 or 5 people, you will usually have an on-call rota.

Certainly, if you on an ‘agile’ tariff in the UK it can be a lot cheaper. There were times a few month ago when it was particularly windy - they were paying me to use electricity/charge my solar batteries from the grid.

I wonder how many manufacturers can currently manage that.

However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.

There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated

To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments

It can work where there is real competition. For natural monopolies, not so much.

Usually it happens because the state wants to sell off family silver to make some short term cash :(

Yeh. I’m pretty comfortable with this broad mix.

Could you give som examples of where it’s desirable ?

Nice tip. Thank you. I was similarly confused

Absolutely. Unless they’re actually evil. Which I’m sure they aren’t. But they could be.

You should definitely spend time trawling through Oxfam shops for books, if this annoys you.

Thanks for the smile this morning 🙂

Running your own VPN in that situation is a good use-case agreed - assuming you trust yourself :)

You’re hiding your traffic route from your mobile operator and giving it instead to your vpn company who swear they are honest

You misspelled ‘I cannot answer your question’

The technology is magnifying the flaws in capitalism

That sounds as if the register for .ar should be out of a job

News seems to work just the same in the UK - mix of free and premium news stories