He wants the only choices on broadcast *or* cable to be owned by Rupert Murdoch or Larry Ellison.

Nice wordplay. Meaning nothing, and trying to justify THEFT.

As I responded to someone above, it's the same as if you personally broke into a bookstore at night and stole all the books.

And speaking as an author, with two books published by a small press, YOU HAVE NO FUCKING RIGHT to read my novels without paying for them.

They stole copies of all those works. Just as if you broke into a bookstore at night and stole all the books.

Is that simple enough for you?

All citizens will be required to carry an AI clone of Big (Corprate) Brother with them at all times.

I mean, I see some commenters here who clearly want all media to come from a monopoly that allows no others (can you say Ticketmaster?), all under the thumb of the tech-bro billionaires.

For you, why not just skip the step where you pay, and tell a chatbot to make a movie for you to see?

... that they shut down is that they had their entire IT connected to the 'Net, with no air gaps, and no valid backups.

Two ships. Whoop-de-do.

And they did, before this demented psycho started the blockade in full force.

And no, most of them don't want to leave.

Fuck the economy, and fuck you. Money is the only thing to you - you probably pay for sex, too.

Have you read any other news than Faux? Let's see, "oppressive" - they don't have the death penalty, have a 99% literacy rate (the US: almost 30% of the US is functionally illiterate), and for decades, they were sending doctors around the world to Third-world countries (as opposed to the US, who loves sending military iad, period).

No, most of their problem is the on-again-lesser-on-again blockade of Cuba by the US, an act of war.

Let's start with WSJ, owned by Rupert Murdoch. It's a "publishing subsidiary of News Corp." Which was founded in Australia in 1915 for the explicit purpose of publishing anti-union propaganda to the miners.

Now let's look at the story, pushing/implying "they're into violence!!!". Let's *NOT* mention the numerous cases, even in red states, where county councils have rejected new datacenter construction, and the several cases where, when the council approved it in spite of voter disapproval, the ENTIRE COUNCIL was voted out.

And, of course, the implication that there's no real reason for it - let's ignore the price of electricity going up, water pollution, and usage of water - Erin Brockovitch notes a patter that they're being built in drough-ridden areas.

Oh, yes, I want to see the reaction of any of you pro-datacenter idiots on say, renting an apt near one, to the permanent hum and vibration.

All of that ignors that construction crews will be brought in from outside the area, and after it's built, there will be dozens - not hundreds, not thousands, of new jobs. And it will NEVER make up for the tax breaks.

Definitely. There was a case - 10 years ago? more? where an Indian on an H1-B sued Oracle, and in the evidence was an email saying, in so many words, "we can offer him $10k or more less than an American".

Meanwhile, here's $1 that the "labor data" company is ignoring the *current* farm workers, and construction., etc, shortage, due to Stephen Miller and ICE.

You've got that dead right.

And they think they "need" to inflame us against hyperscale data center - which Erin Brockovitch notes are overwhelmingly being built in drought-ridden areas?

...the charge for the Magic Number code to make the new parts work? You know, they way HP doesn't want to print if it's not an Origianl HP Ink?

The guy, the other month, on hte DC Metro, who was sitting with his..three? four? year old, and got the kid onto a play phone, and he got on his, ignoring the kid?

You're so brainwashed you think a monopoly is a great thing, and no one should be allowed to compete with it.

Go move to Russia.

Fuck you forever and ever.