It’s so absurd, the website’s appeal lies entirely in the user driven experience created by volunteer moderators and user submitted content. Yet the path of profit growth for them lies in company placed ads, and LLM bots spamming comment sections to astroturf. The more they push for profit, the less appeal to users the site has.
He can say what ever he wants, apparently, but he has to run it by a court to actually prosecute people, and we’ve already seen that the courts are not just giving him the outcomes he wants.
Hell, even the Supreme Court, as stacked as it is, isn’t just rolling over for him.
The question is what happens when he continues to just ignore court orders and rulings. Will he be held in contempt? Will there be actions to enforce the decisions of the courts?
That’s the actual question at stake at this point
I think Netflix has brought on some management people straight from Hollywood who have implemented the worst ‘data driven’ strategies.
Netflix’s earlier success never came from getting involved with content production, as the article says, their biggest hits came from giving skilled teams blank checks, or buying up already good stuff. They wanted to convince people that they could produce as good stuff as any studio or cable network, become the hot new thing that would get people to sign up.
But now, Netflix is trying to maximize viewer retention, prevent people from canceling subscriptions at the end of the month after they’ve seen what they wanted. They’re looking at what factors keep people watching for a long time, watching regularly, and then interfering with production till they get stuff that matches those metrics. They want Netflix to be a daily fixture in people’s lives so they won’t consider canceling it at the end of the month, and thus are making slop content to try and get that.
Huh, funny, isn’t that. Almost like Israel’s leadership was lying through it’s teeth.