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

Texas republican voters don't care, and the rest of the texans who didn't vote for this are also the most impacted.

Who cares if they want to install xyz software [in their home directory]? Chances are it'll be a free boost for performance and/or morale.

This /really/ depends on your threat model. "xyz software in their home directory" could easily be "exfil tool that uploads all data employee X has access too, disguised as a meme template generator"

@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.

@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