no way. this kind of elitism and gatekeeping kills communities

@Ech ehhh, someone posting "that could have been me" on their personal twitter account isn't really "pumping up their notoriety", more like... a normal human reaction to learning you avoided death

blame cnn for making a "news" story out of it

@Etnies419 no, if you read the article even linking requires payment. That's why they're removing results entirely, rather than just removing summaries like they did in other countries

But to the point, in those countries leaving the links but removing the summaries also resulted in significant reductions in traffic for the news orgs.

@NarrativeBear @fubo

@fubo yeah, unfortunately these types of laws try to have their cake and eat it too

A similar law was passed in France, and predictably France news orgs lost significant traffic and cried foul.

It makes no sense to charge a search engine for the privilege of bringing customers to your website, and these types of laws always have predictable outcomes.

@LookThere Something I use for mastodon is fediact - which basically simulates being "logged in" on remote mastodon instances. It looks like the maintainer doesn't really have time for it, but it'd be nice to have something like this for lemmy/kbin as well - that way you could upvote/downvote/reply/etc. without having to paste into the search bar each time...

But also yeah - if federation is lagging behind due to server overload, the UI clunk isn't the issue - you can't reply to a post the server doesn't know exists.

This is from 2019: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/06/12/captain-rescue-boat-faces-20-years-jail-convicted-illegally/

Apparently italy has been harassing this specific captian since at least 2017: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-italy-ngo/italy-seizes-ngo-rescue-boat-for-allegedly-aiding-illegal-migration-idUSKBN1AI21B, and apparently the italian government has been going against multiple rescue boats