Notices by Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social), page 8

The more our big media companies do the bidding of right-wing extremists, the more they are encouraging people to stop paying for their media -- including the good stuff.

Which also means, on top of their incessant, cartel-driven price increases, that they're setting the table for a massive return to what they (inaccurately) call "piracy".

At which point they'll tell Congress to lock everything down and ban strong encryption.

This is a script from an evil timeline that somehow became ours.

Trump regime now requires press to sign a document agreeing not to obtain or possess "unauthorized" information.

https://archive.ph/3GGyU

Anyone who agrees to this is not qualified to call himself or herself a journalist.

But I'm betting most Big Journalism orgs will go ahead and sign.

When a company says it has "no plans" to enshittify its product, you should take that to mean it will proceed fairly soon with enshittification.

Today's example is Samsung:

https://www.theverge.com/news/780757/samsung-brings-ads-to-us-fridges

Please read Josh Marshall's take on the Trump regime's escalating attacks on freedom of speech -- Kimmel's removal only the latest but probably most extreme example.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few-thoughts-on-kimmelgeddon/sharetoken/9b9c2c6c-bc94-4280-a74f-6fc8e2158cf8

The most important thing in this piece is its call to action in a way that we can actually achieve.
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It is essential for everyone to recognize that ABC didn't just fire Kimmel for daring to speak things that the Trump regime and its cult don't want spoken out loud.

It was DISNEY that fired Kimmel. Disney owns ABC.

The principal cowardice in this butchery of free speech belongs to Bob Iger, CEO.

No hiding from what the Washington Post has become: a right-wing tool. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/15/karen-attiah-fired-washington-post-charlie-kirk

Danish Minister of Justice says no one has the right to communicate in a way that cannot be overheard, recorded, and understood by the police (and other snoops):

https://www-ft-dk.translate.goog/samling/20231/almdel/REU/spm/1426/index.htm?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=ja&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp (via Google Translate)

Trump regime's disgusting treatment of the Korean workers in Georgia seems designed to torpedo all foreign investment in the U.S.

Reminder: They were almost certainly treated better than most of the people ICE is kidnapping and disappearing.

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffairs/20250914/shackled-and-chained-mass-detention-of-koreans-fuels-criticism-of-us

For years I've consistently used quotation marks to more clearly identify the Murdoch family's right-wing propaganda operation, otherwise known as Fox "News".

Sadly, it's time to do the same with CBS "News" -- where integrity is being systematically destroyed, by design:

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/12/nx-s1-5537152/cbs-news-ellison-steps-appease-trump

Federal judge is upset that Trump regime fabricated evidence and more while breaking other laws, but says he's not going to do anything to punish any lawbreaker. He talks semi-tough but, in the end, is a coward.

https://archive.ph/PKgjp

If this is what it seems, it's absolutely contemptible behavior by UC Berkeley -- contemptuous of freedom of speech and academic freedom, for starters.

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-berkeley-turns-over-personal-information-of-more-than-150-students-and-staff-to-federal/article_a4aad3e1-bbba-42cc-92d7-a7964d9641c5.html

Trump and his cult, including many Republican office-holders, have been egging on political violence -- aimed at the left -- for years. They are NOT opposed to political violence.

Our "mainstream" journalists seem mostly unwilling to provide that context in their coverage at the moment.

Re the murder of Charlie Kirk, please read this thread by Ken White, a former prosecutor and strong defender of human rights in the age of goon-filled regimes like our current one:

https://mastodon.social/@kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy/115181576166347676

Screenshot of first post:

Incredibly sad to watch the once-great Washington Post flush its integrity down the toilet this way.

Contemptible people, every one of them at this table, starting with the fascist host and extending to the money-grubbing, power-hungry tech CEOs who have completely betrayed their country on his behalf. https://www.wired.com/story/tech-ceos-donald-trump-white-house/

Alt link: https://archive.ph/2BltD

An accurate headline: "In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements" -- https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/in-win-for-infectious-diseases-florida-to-end-all-school-vaccine-requirements/

“Florida’s undertakers will now need to plan for the future by increasing their stocks of small coffins,” as state's insane government moves to kill children by ending vaccine requirements. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/florida-vaccine-mandate

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 55,206:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lutnick-family-angling-to-make-astronomical-sums-off-court-nixing-tariffs

The federal judge let Google off the hook in the antitrust case that the company supposedly lost. He said no to any serious remedy. And he indirectly killed Mozilla (Firefox and Thunderbird).

A good day for Google, and a terrible day for what's left of the open web.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/google-wont-have-to-sell-chrome-judge-rules/

@timbray I consider myself reasonably good at this stuff, and I still cannot figure out passkeys...