First taxing the sun, now this. EEUU, please invade us.
It's ridiculous how fucking idiotic our politicians can be and people still keep voting them.
EDIT: Typo.
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#22First taxing the sun, now this. EEUU, please invade us. It's ridiculous how fucking idiotic our politicians can be and people still keep voting them. EDIT: Typo.
Spain's politics just keep going lower and lower. I wonder how much longer it will take untill we are kicked out of the EU.
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#23i seriously don't get why the newspapers don't want people linking to them. what am I missing?
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#24First taxing the sun, now this. EEUU, please invade us. It's ridiculous how fucking idiotic our politicians can be and people still keep voting them. EDIT: Typo.
By EEUU did you perhaps mean the US? (EEUU is the acronym for Estados Unidos in Spanish)
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#25When they are already in such bad economic shape, why are the Spaniards so eager to push themselves into further irrelevance?
Spanish user here. The main political parties have economic interest in mass media companies (like PRISA group). They are covering the hand who feds them. Talking with other citiziens, they have no idea about this law being passed or does not support it.
Same here, had no idea about this. News are just a diversion (basically just 30 minutes of sports) to keep people "busy" while they (politicians) keep doing whatever the hell they want.
Thanks to OP for posting it here.
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#26First taxing the sun, now this. EEUU, please invade us. It's ridiculous how fucking idiotic our politicians can be and people still keep voting them. EDIT: Typo.
By EEUU did you perhaps mean the US? (EEUU is the acronym for Estados Unidos in Spanish)
Damn, my bad, yeah I meant the US. It's a bit late here 02:00 AM and I need some rest.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not about linking, it's about re-posting titles and excerpts of news, like Google News does (did?)
and the point is that these publishers don't realize that all these news aggregators are sending a considerable amount of visits to them this is a picture of an editorial celebrating that this law was passed and how they include the buttons to send the article to the aggregators: http://mnmstatic.net/cache/21/eb/thumb_medium-2223027.jpg
There's no hypocrisy there. The law appears to be based on the idea that sending the article on social media should produce money for the article writer... obviously this would be a reason to encourage flowing the article out to social media rather than inhibiting it.
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#28i seriously don't get why the newspapers don't want people linking to them. what am I missing?
This is uninformed speculation, but I imagine two reasons:
1. You can skim an aggregated list of headlines and get a quick glance of current events without ever clicking through to the actual sites, thus causing them to lose out on ad revenue.
2. Newspapers like being linked to but don't want their competitors linked to, and think they'd be better off overall in a world where people directly visited the web site of their preferred news outlet.
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#29Well, doesn't that mean that big websites will just filter out all links to those websites? It sounds very counterproductive. If they insist I think they would eradicate Spanish news agencies completely.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because Spanish politics is an inbred kind of politics. People joke in Latin America about Spaniards because of their remarkably low knowledge of foreign languages and outside culture, or the fact that they watch American films overdubbed whereas others just watch them with subtitles. It's a subtle thing, but there's a perception, to me not unfounded, that some sectors of Spanish society just don't look outward much,…
I agree with you until last paragraph. As I said in another reply, I think that this law is based on economical protection of the two main political parties. The lack of knowledge of foreign languages is clearly a issue. I think that our country is solving this making B1 mandatory to get you graduated and enforcing bilingual basic education on the capital. Not so much, but it seems to start giving some results. We ha…
"I know people that prefer original versions, but you can not exclude your friends when social watching."
Why not original versions with subtitles?