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Out of the blue: How a Quake blog turned PC gaming news site has stayed a haven from 'internet enshittification' for nearly 30 years


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This spectre of quality decay—this "enshittification," as it was dubbed by journalist Cory Doctorow—goes beyond news outlets, social media sites, and blogs, extending to streaming TV, digital storefronts, and just about any service that exists in proximity to capital. It's a Bizarro World inversion of everything that makes Blue's News so placid, sharing its spartan web design, focus on headline aggregation, and no-nonsense ethos, but with a hard conservative slant. He's careful not to "make any claims to be Edward R. Murrow," but Heaslip thinks this approach helps keep things civil, adding that it's easy for online forums to devolve into "echo chambers."

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