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My understanding is that Australia created a similar law and both FB/Google came to the bargaining table. Does anyone know what’s different this time? Is the l
by Permit 3y ago
My understanding is that Australia created a similar law and both FB/Google came to the bargaining table.
Does anyone know what’s different this time? Is the law different? Is Canada a less valuable market?
- peanuty1 3y agoPresumably Meta has learned that media linking is not worth negotiating with hostile governments.
- ahahahahah 3y agoIf you were meta and wanted to go to that bargaining table, would you want to have a good understanding of the value that these links are providing you and your users? Would you maybe try to get that understanding by running a small test in the wild where you disabled these links for some users?
- jonny_eh 3y agoHow can you negotiate once the law was on the books? I assume that negotiations were attempting before the law was passed.
- jeffbee 3y agoThat's not exactly what happened. Facebook stopped serving Australian news stories and the Australian news industry immediately surrendered to Meta's terms.