Also Canadian - rip the Band-Aid off. Fuck those users honestly. Some would likely be family members to most, but it's not an excuse to defend an unnecessary mi

Also Canadian - rip the Band-Aid off. Fuck those users honestly. Some would likely be family members to most, but it's not an excuse to defend an unnecessary middle-man. Social media as a profit center is a failed experiment and it must be dismantled (simple news delivery or not) - distributed communities will make a return as it should be. I respect your opinion, but to me the situation is more akin to a random algorithm distributing a whole manner of both healthy and junk foods together with no labels. Now we're worried about that the people will no longer know how to get food at all, or that it'll all be junk. Facebook helped create that problem (accident or not) and that now needs to be undone - staying the course is not a preferable solution. The news outlets also deserve a chance to deliver directly to their readers and viewers - if they're no better off financially that's the outlet's problem. Potential financial extortion of the Canadian government aside, I think it's a net positive having news links off the platform. Maybe there should be more government funding tax dollars to support outlets people respect - the sooner we find out the result of this the sooner we can try a next step. Maybe we got it wrong.