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They only show what the website gives them through opengraph tags. If the site doesn’t want to give up that information they can remove the opengraph tags. Even
by neksn 5mo ago
They only show what the website gives them through opengraph tags. If the site doesn’t want to give up that information they can remove the opengraph tags. Even still, fair use should allow Facebook to summarise the contents of the link if they wanted to (but they don’t do that).
- lokar 5mo agoSure, but then proper monopoly laws would ban most of what meta does.
- marcosdumay 5mo agoSue through those, then. Making insane laws prohibiting people to talk about facts they've seen elsewhere won't help.
- Manuel_D 5mo agoWhere does Meta have a monopoly? TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, etc. all compete with it
- nradov 5mo agoIn what sense is Meta a monopoly? It seems like they have a huge amount of competition in the form of Google (YouTube), Microsoft (LinkedIn), Reddit, X, Snapchat, Telegram, TikTok, Signal, etc.
- xigoi 5mo agoA lot of often valuable content is only accessible through Facebook. If you want to see the opening hours of some businesses or photos from some event, you often need a Facebook account.
- nradov 5mo agoA lot of valuable content is only available through LinkedIn. So what? You can create a Facebook account for free so that part isn't a problem. There's no consumer harm.