Ah the "choice" problem....

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On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:21 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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