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‘Disaster’: warning for democracy as experts condemn Meta over Canada news ban
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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Reminder that Canadian media actually lobbied for this. They spent like two years calling Zuckerberg a thief for displaying news articles on Facebook.
This isn't the result of the government just doing a random thing. They did what they were asked to do by the media outlets.
The media outlets aren't going to get what they want, but this still seems like a potentially good thing for users. After all, it's not just Canadian media sites that are being black listed.
Agreed! The media in Canada asked for this, expecting a big payday and now they are getting screwed (fewer eyeballs means less money from advertising) with themselves to blame.
News companies are now free from pleasing a billionaires gamed algorithm and can find better ways to market themselves. Starting a Fediverse server would be a good way to begin.
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