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JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoCalling a news site terrorist for asking for payment for the articles they write in the current political landscape sounds so… first-world-problems.
It was probably an entertaining exaggeration, but I don’t like how the term is being diluted by overuse. If a mosquito bites me, it’s a terrorist. Got a stone in your shoe? Believe it or not: Terrorist.
The term has serious legal consequences in many countries, therefore we should make sure people don’t forget what its true meaning is.
*the articles they copied somewhere else
Saying that based on…?
Based on the fact that I haven’t lived under a rock for the last 10-20 years. The more the internet expanded the more sources there were to copy from and since then it has increased greatly. You only need to search for the headline and you will find several “sources”
That’s just arguing in bad faith, unless you can at least demonstrate that this particular journal has copied their articles in the past.
Even if you were to entertain that thought however it doesn’t make them any more guilty of “terrorism” like op called them
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Running malware on someone else’s computer does not exactly make you the good one.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Big reach from running ads to it being malware
AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
trendmicro.com/…/forbes-readers-served-malicious-…
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I didn’t say ads can’t contain malware, but it’s a bit of a “(some) internet malware is ads, but not all ads are malware” scenario, it’s very dependent on who they get the ads from and how tight those ads get reviewed. Broad statements like that are just ignorant, and I say that as someone who uses an adblock on all of their devices.
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
The overwhelming majority of ads are malware. Which is why I block aggressively and refuse to budge on that.