Re: [linux] canadian news funding, maybe a free open source news aggregator app as part of a funding model solution?

2023-09-06 Thread jf
I see there is a big debate around the news broadcasting within Canada and Thursday's discussion about this and the presentation about FreshRSS is going to be a very interesting one. On 2023-09-06 13:24, Dianne Skoll wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 10:54:34 -0400 tug wrote: [...] If the

Re: [linux] canadian news funding, maybe a free open source news aggregator app as part of a funding model solution?

2023-09-06 Thread J C Nash
To answer just one: Yes, nation-states ultimately have the advantage because they have, well, armies and such. But IMO, the tech giants have become dangerously powerful... powerful enought to actually start challenging some nation-states. The British and Dutch East India Companies had their

Re: [linux] canadian news funding, maybe a free open source news aggregator app as part of a funding model solution?

2023-09-06 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 10:54:34 -0400 tug wrote: [...] > If the solution is charitably donate to news sources you like, then > the outcome will be that the narrative of the richest will prevail. I don't see how that follows. Plenty of ordinary people used to subscribe to newspapers and magazines