[Link] Cops Tried Playing Disney Music to Censor a Video

Read: 10/4/2022 www.vice.com

This time, it’s Disney. Around 11 p.m. on Monday in Santa Ana, a city just south of Los Angeles, a YouTuber with a channel called Santa Ana Audits started recording a group of police investigating a car theft in his neighborhood.

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[Link] Spotify’s attempt to use the Facebook playbook over Joe Rogan won’t wash

Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

Two decades ago, the late and much-lamented David Bowie said something that was eerily prophetic. “Music itself,” he observed, “is going to become like running water or electricity.

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