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[Australian here] Recalling these 'negotiations' when they happened and when Facebook blocked news links for a short while (which was actually quite a lovely ti
by anotherevan 3y ago
[Australian here] Recalling these 'negotiations' when they happened and when Facebook blocked news links for a short while (which was actually quite a lovely time) - the whole thing came across as a shake-down with all the subtlety of a tele-evangelist.
- graeme 3y agoI'm Canadian and I suspect our problem is that we're approaching this in earnest, not realizing that the Australian law was a shakedown and made no sense from an earnest perspective. We were advised by Australia's top policy wonk, but maybe he was in earnest and didn't understand the game he was in.
- xvector 3y agoI just don't understand how anyone with a shred of intelligence could even think of this law and not immediately realize it's a shakedown. Your policymakers are either - earnest and incredibly stupid - malicious and only somewhat stupid There's just no in-between here. A child that has done ten minutes of research on the issue could realize the problems with these bills.