Snot Flickerman

The amount of time, money, and effort these groups will put into fighting to make the law benefit their business model instead of just, I don’t know, innovating or not needing endless growth maybe, is so pathetic.

For the “creative” industry their executives are really unimaginative.

DOWNGRAYEDD

This right here. Let’s not single out India, there’s a lot of shitheel governments to go around.

Me, viewing banned Wikipedia articles:

lmao, nobody cares when it’s big companies silently manipulating the results like this to the benefit of influencers, but once regular people become enraged enough to poison the data, now it’s something to talk about and totally represents how dystopian everything has gotten!

And while this is far from being a dangerous attempt to manipulate search results or AI algorithms, it does highlight the pitfalls of Google results becoming dependent on content generated by users who could very easily have intentions other than providing helpful information

Thanks for joining us in 2009, ArsTechnica. Hang on, I’ll grab my “Three Wolf Moon” t-shirt.

https://www.theregister.com/2009/04/17/time_top_100_hack/

Time Magazine’s poll of the 100 most influential people has been hacked by a motley band of online troublemakers who have managed to manipulate the top 21 names so their first letters spell “marblecake, also the game.”

What a fucking pussy.

EDIT: To expand a little -

He literally has international users in chat talking about how free trials aren’t available to them or that services literally aren’t available in their country or its going to be released there months later or what have you and this fucking corporate dick sucking idiot is just like “bUt YoU hAvE tO PaY bC tHe SuItS mIgHt bE wAtChInG!” totally not because he is personally interested in profiting handsomely (and trying to create a career other than being a loser on the internet) from a project he stars in. It’s entirely selfishly motivated. He’s a pussy and a self interested prick.