I know the correct response is to shoot less children, but I can’t help but see the value in lowering CEO survival rates.

I’m not contesting the legality of what TechCrunch an other modern web article farms do. It’s all legal. The problem is that even if it is legal, it’s fucking people over. Plagiarizing a YouTube video by taking the closed captions and copy/pasting them onto your site with an attribution link is fucking cunt behavior, and the death of modern journalism. Legal? Yep, it sure is. Morally reprehensible? Definitely.

If you live your life shirking all your personal responsibility and pushing the blame onto corporations, you are part of the problem.

In an story about stealing money from creators, you’d rather read an article that just plagiarizes the source material for clicks and ad revenue than go to the actual source? If this article added literally anything to the video I could support it, but it’s just the video in text format. If you don’t have 8 minutes to watch a video, fine, but consider that the whole Honey thing is basically the same thing as this article. What do you think the click through rate on the video is? How many people won’t watch the video now that they’ve read the article?

Before I even clicked it I knew there would be no real journalism involved. It’s just parroting the video the LegalEagle put out, so if you’d rather give your click to the creator, just watch the Youtube video, and don’t bother with the techcrunch “article”.

#beardgoals