Some lucky web developer just scored $20k to scour Facebook out of Neil Young’s website
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/08/12/neil_young_ditches_facebook_google/
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And not before time: in 2018 The Register [2]reported that Young had taken aim at Google, Facebook and Amazon for distributing of music without paying artists. But as we noted at the time, to read his objections readers had to sign in to Young’s site with either Google or Facebook, meaning he was feeding the beasts he derided.
Now Young’s certainty that Facebook does not have a heart of gold have seen him fork out “almost $20,000” to “disengage from the corrupt social platform.”
Neil Young yanks music from streaming services: 'Worst audio in history' [3]READ MORE
“Facebook knowingly allows untruths and lies in its political ads to circulate on the platform, while bots sow discord among users,” Young told members. “Sowing dissent and chaos in our country via political disinformation is something we can not condone.”
“Simply put, Facebook is screwing with our election.”
Young is an avowed anti-Trumper and sued the president’s re-election campaign for copyright breach after it repeatedly used his music at campaign rallies against his wishes. He recently re-recorded a song titled “Looking for a Leader” that criticises the president and invited him to play it at his next rally.
The renowned rocker’s also campaigned against the humble MP3 codec on grounds that it ruins his music. His response was to attempt the creation of his own iPod-like device, but that effort died in 2017. ®
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[1] https://neilyoungarchives.com/
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2018/02/27/neil_young_versus_google/
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2015/07/15/neil_young_streaming_music/
[4] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
And....
The Reg will follow....when?
I'm a member
I received the email yesterday, but since I created my own login, I'm good!
May this be a watershed event... Are you listening, Zuck?
Anti GMO but dependent on insulin from GMO corn. He's a hypocrite. Also, I think Pono is a good indictment of how tech savvy he is.
SIgh. Ignorance is... common
Some anti-GMO folks are anti-science, and are unreasonable. Others are "anti-GMO" because of a very specific modification: the one that makes a crop resistant to Round-Up. They object for a couple of reasons. Some consider Round-Up (based on some evidence) to be a fairly nasty pesticide that has ill effects for humans. Others object to an economic model that forces farmers to buy seed annually rather than using a portion of their crop (in poorer areas of the world, anything that increases the base costs of food production threatens food production). Others object to the use of Round-Up (and other pesticides), because they don't remain tightly confined, so one farmer using Round-Up forces neighbors to buy Round-Up resistant seed to preserve crop yield. And if you end up being forced to buy the resistant seed, you might as well use the pesticide as well to increase yield.
So he isn't necessarily a hypocrite or unreasonable for being anti-GMO. As for being tech savvy -- dweebs who can devise audio compression algorithms and implement devices are a dime a dozen. Even tech folks who can insert a USB-A plug correctly on the first shot every time are numerous.
There is exactly one guy in the universe who wrote "Cinnamon Girl," "Down by the River," "The Needle and the Damage Done," and "After the Gold Rush."
With that kind of genius, who cares if he can identify the next hot portable music player?
Well done
Facebook and Google are both a total 'Blot on the Landscape' and the sooner that they are consigned to history the better.
Disclaimer: Any information held by Google and Facebook on me is fake. I do not use and have never used and never will use social media. IMHO Facebook and pals are responsible for more addictive behaviour than all the hard drugs combined.
Ha
"But as we noted at the time, to read his objections readers had to sign in to Young’s site with either Google or Facebook, meaning he was feeding the beasts he derided."
Sounds like the rantings of the perpetually unhappy. Trumps election has provided a considerable amount of amusement of those who should probably be pitied. But it has drawn them into the light to expose some of the extreme reactions some people can have when they look at the real world with incomprehension.
I can’t delete
What I’ve never created
Well, his site still calls scripts from Google Analytics & Tag Manager, but seems to work OK if they're bloacked.
Not quite all there?
I once saw Neil Young invited on to stage at JavaOne (back when Sun Microsystems existed) to talk about how Java technology (embedded in every Blu-ray player) had enabled him to go from letting people listen to his music to being able to experience it via interactive content. He spent the whole 20-minute segment saying how amazing it was that Playstation had enabled him to deliver interactive content, while Jonathan Schwartz looked on with a pained expression.
It was a lot more entertaining than I think they had planned.
I'll donit for
15K.
Thanks