LtE's 3/3 - Sunday Edition

CM - To comment on “Social media ‘out of control’”, 03/03
DT - To comment on “Facebook ‘ripping off Australia’”, 03/03
HS - To comment on “Meta faces revolt on news”, 03/03
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In the story about Facebook’s parent Meta wanting to acquire other people’s intellectual property without compensation, the legacy media was described as a “critical industry”, (“Social media ‘out of control’”, 03/03). Critical to whom, exactly? Well, mainly to The Establishment as a mass mind-control mechanism.

It’s self-evidently not critical to the general population because it has failed for 35 years to expose the global warming hoax and its lack of curiosity about the Covid responses resulted in members of the general population being killed and injured. As Mark Twain said, if you don’t read the paper you’re uninformed and if you do read it you’re misinformed.

If Premier Miles is so bothered about Meta’s unconscionable decision, why has he been so silent on China, which has been stealing intellectual property on a staggering scale since the 1970s? And doesn’t he care that Facebook evolved from LifeLog, which was a CIA scheme to harvest data from America’s domestic population?

If Miles and Albo want to legislate something, how about “social media must not censor and must not harvest and sell data” and “media must tell both sides of every story honestly”? Obviously that won’t happen.

Jennifer Short
Edge Hill