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> Despite the ban, news organization content is still available on Meta platforms through work-around strategies like screengrabs, with 36% of Canadian users re
by tedunangst 2y ago
> Despite the ban, news organization content is still available on Meta platforms through work-around strategies like screengrabs, with 36% of Canadian users reporting encountering news or links to news on Facebook or Instagram. This arguably should make Meta subject to the requirements of the Online News Act.
Until Facebook bans screenshots as well. Or maybe they can switch tactics to prosecute the users posting screenshots for copyright infringement. They're at least equally to blame, no?
- meiraleal 2y agoYeah. They could also pay for the news but that's outrageous, right?
- seryoiupfurds 2y agoWhy should they be obliged to pay for the news if they don't want it because it isn't valuable for them? Is it immoral not to buy the $15 hotdog at a sports stadium even if you decide you're not that hungry?
- meiraleal 2y agoIf news isn't valuable to Facebook that's great for everybody then. Users leave facebook to look for news in place of getting informed by their echo-chambers. Win-win-win.
- phyrex 2y agoExcept it doesn’t seem to have worked out this way
- meiraleal 2y agoIt did. They are complaining that people spent less time enganged on social media. This is positive.