Google lets publishers close the free back door

Posted onDecember 2, 2009AuthorThe Media Wonk

Check out my post on today’s Google News annoucement over at GigaOm. In perfect illustration of the tension between paid and free content online, I gave it to GigaOm because they paid me for it. I’ll probably have more to say here for free in an upcoming post.

One of the more striking aspects of the conversation around Musk’s pursuit of Twitter, including from Musk himself, has been its U.S.-centric focus. Much of the discussion has been framed against the backdrop of the U.S. culture war and the ersatz controversy over so-called cancel culture, such as around whether Musk will invite U.S. figures like Donald Trump, Katie Hopkins and Alex Jones to rejoin the platform after they were banned by the previous management for violating Twitter’s policies on hate speech and disinformation. Yet Twitter is a global platform. Read More …

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