For the sake of our democracy, American hedge funds should be banned from owning Canadian newspapers.
For the sake of our democracy, American hedge funds should be banned from owning Canadian newspapers
Canada’s largest newspaper chain, Postmedia, is owned by an American hedge fund headed up by a wealthy donor to Donald Trump.
A friendly reminder to everyone. Lemmy is absolutely not representative of the broader mass media dialogue happening around us. We have to be paying attention to how all people, close with us in our day to day lives interact with it instead. My boss is a retired mechanic who thought Trump was gonna run the US "like a business." I have been speaking very openly about my views on the American News Media bias in Canada. How new and legacy media are both monopolies controlled by the same small group of men. How the Heritage Foundation funded the Trump Campaign. How every far-right group appearing after Covid had the same names and message. America First, Canada First, Britain First, Ireland First, Francais Premier and all, coincidentally, funded by right-wing, American, Christian groups. Something clicked with him today, while he was on his phone and I watched as it all suddenly made sense to him.
Then I watched as he actually became worried. People know that it's Big Tech and we have to have these conversations, because that's how you get people to put their phones down and re-evaluate the idea of trusting 5 companies with all of their personal information and doing all computing in a web browser. That's how you wake them up to the fact that LLM's and embedded AI assistants are only their to spy on you and silence dissent.
Hey Co-pilot, have any of our user's expressed dissatisfaction with the regime? Here's a curated list.
We are so close to class consciousness do not let this echo-chamber be a safe space. Get Offline, get loud, get honest. Fuck Google
My boss is a retired mechanic who thought Trump was gonna run the US "like a business."
Running government like a business is a horrible idea.
The 2 are vastly different types of organizations with very different goals and motivations.
This is important information for people to read and unddrrstand. As a denizen of multiple communities for over 25 years I think the seeds of ideas start with these forums. They are almost like a canary in the coal mine to give us an idea what will bubble up to the surface to grandma.
We're not the majority on Lemmy, many instances are curated to keep out the filth. But content is recycled and moves throughout the net. I'm reminded of this old meme, eventually content makes it to facebook where my mom and elders consume content.