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Moot point because Trudeau basically banned all news from being shared on Facebook
by sattoshi 2y ago
Moot point because Trudeau basically banned all news from being shared on Facebook
- bhouston 2y ago> Moot point because Trudeau basically banned all news from being shared on Facebook You can still follow individual reporters posting their own content. For example I can access both https://www.instagram.com/wizard_bisan1/ https://www.instagram.com/wizard_bisan1/ or https://www.instagram.com/clarissawardcnn/ https://www.instagram.com/clarissawardcnn/, etc. But I can not access the organization pages like https://www.instagram.com/cnn/ https://www.instagram.com/cnn/
- throw1230 2y agoTrudeau didn't ban news on FB, FB banned news posted to Canada because they don't want to pay publishers.
- sattoshi 2y agoSurrounded by scandals, Trudeau passed a law that had an oh-so-unintentional side-effect of hiding news from many people’s primary news source. It’s hard to not be cynical about it.
- wvenable 2y agoI can't say I miss it; Facebook is actually usable now and shouldn't be anyone's primary news source.
- passwordoops 2y agoThe dude lurches from one sound bite to another with policy so shallow it barely looks at first order effects. I'm sure the impact was fully unintentional. Very welcome after the fact. But still unintentional
- shiroiushi 2y agoExpecting Facebook or Google to pay publishers is like going back in time to 1970 and saying that a newsstand should be paying newspaper publishers for the privilege of selling their papers.
- mikehodgson 2y agoGoogle agreed to the terms. They're paying $100 million per year to the Canadian Journalism Collective.
- not2b 2y agoNo. Canada passed a law requiring Facebook to pay news media for links. Meta said no, we aren't going to do that and banned news instead. You can argue that this was a predictable response by Meta or that it was a stupid law, but it was not a ban.