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1. Evan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️ (e_urq@journa.host)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 00:07:27 JST Evan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️

   Did you see this piece in the Guardian? Senior managers at Vice apparently blocked a story about how the Saudi government helps families harass and threaten transgender Saudis living overseas. Vice now gets a lot of Saudi money, and it seems like the editorial independence of their news team was part of the deal.

   https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/aug/15/vice-blocked-news-stories-that-could-offend-saudi-arabia-insiders-say

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 00:09:12 JST Aral Balkan

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     @e_urq It’s odd because, if you listen to tech folks, you can take money from anyone and it doesn’t affect anything. Like you could say you want to protect privacy and be funded by half a billion dollars every year by Google and tech folks are like, that’s cool, Mozilla, oh, and, by the way, that reminds me, I should send in my annual donation…

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 02:12:41 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Covidiocracy

     @ampersine @e_urq Yeah, Greenpeace is really missing a trick by not being fully funded by ExxonMobil. Idiots, amirite?

   • Covidiocracy (ampersine@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 02:12:42 JST Covidiocracy

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral @e_urq
     I always thought of Google funding Mozilla as a sort of antitrust tax. From a legal perspective, it benefits Google to have Firefox out there and being developed independently by Mozilla as "competition." That falls apart if Google starts attaching onerous conditions to its funding (we'll have to see how this "web integrity" bullshit plays out).

     Of course G benefits from being the default search engine in Firefox, but I don't see a lot of evil going on, otherwise... Yet...