[FRIAM] Jedi Blue?

[Roger Critchlow]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/michael-goldhaber-internet.html

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On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 5:58 PM Eric Charles <eric.phillip.charles at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ah the "choice" problem....
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> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:21 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I feel like this should have crossed my eyeballs on this list ... from
>> Tom or someone. If so, I'm sorry for the duplicate and my inattention:
>>
>> These local newspapers say Facebook and Google are killing them. Now
>> they’re fighting back.
>>
>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/west-virginia-google-facebook-newspaper-lawsuit/2021/02/03/797631dc-657d-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html
>>
>> I subscribe to our local McClatchy paper: The Olympian. And, as in beer,
>> I'm torn between a truly local paper vs. one owned by some far-flung
>> corporation. Even linking to Imperialist Bezos' WaPo, here, irritates me.
>> But there's only so much attention I can give to such. Jim Rutt's recent
>> interview of Tristan Harris was interesting mostly because of the
>> underlying principle that eyeballs matter. Harris did a good job of staying
>> on track in spite of Rutt's attempt to splatter the thread. >8^D
>> Regardless, *can* we consciously choose where our eyeballs go? Is that
>> simply more, ad nauseum, free will nonsense?
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