Post AYWNIZAbVe6GrhIHHU by Erasmid@mastodon.online
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(DIR) Post #AYVT00b3icFuzaF55E by rms@mastodon.xyz
2023-08-08T02:15:10Z
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Facebook has responded to Canada's law requiring it to pay a small amount for having a link to news articles by banning those links: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/04/canada-meta-news-ban-facebook-fake This could mean that the only links useds of Facebook see are disinformation.
(DIR) Post #AYVTi0ynekAyvCKYpU by PublicLewdness@freespeechextremist.com
2023-08-08T02:23:10.020118Z
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@rms If people rely on Facebook for news they're lost regardless.
(DIR) Post #AYVVtnwm8Xylsv8K1Y by boilingsteam@mastodon.cloud
2023-08-08T02:47:40Z
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@rms Linking to other websites should be free, it's one of the foundations of the WWW and hypertext. Is Wikipedia going to extort people and companies next?
(DIR) Post #AYVaFJBNbArAerTQ4u by TheCoolest@dftba.club
2023-08-08T03:36:19Z
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@rms or it could mean people will finally stop seeing Facebook as a news source(I'm trying to be optimistic about this but either way I just can not care about Facebook)
(DIR) Post #AYWNIZAbVe6GrhIHHU by Erasmid@mastodon.online
2023-08-08T12:46:00Z
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@rms I wonder whather the Canadians have checked what happened when Australia tried a similar approach. FB acted while legislation was being debated in Parliament. Early 2021, & FB blocked government departments, community groups, and emergency services as well: their work was sloppy. As I recall, FB agreed to legislation exempting orgs from fees for the use of news sites if they made signficant contributions to local news gathering orgs (paid into a pool to be shared between news groups.)