You know who doesn’t milk everyone dry and then try to put everyone over a barrel to let them keep doing that to the detriment of everyone else? The fediverse and non-big tech/SV VC companies. May these sorts of things help build inertia against these motherfuckers. #BigTechShouldNotExist #DeleteBigTech #DeleteFacebook #fediverse
Trudeau denounces Meta
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blasted social media giant Meta on Monday over its decision to block local news as wildfires continue to force thousands of Canadians from their homes.www.cbc.ca
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Noam Bergman
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Adam Hunt
in reply to Hank G ☑️ • • •As a Canadian, I can say that the PM's argument is spurious. This was bad policy in the first place and sticking to it is not working. The government lost this ill-conceived battle with FB and that outcome was highly predictable from the start. There was no way FB was going to pay cash for each link to any news story posted, when they could not control who was posting links or how many. Plus the links bring FB zero revenue. The model made it advantageous for news media outlets to write bots to just post links all day, as FB would have to pay for each one, As I said: this was bad policy.
Overall since 2015 I would rate this government as a "C", which far better than the "F" that Harper's previous government rates, but still they haven't got everything right and this bill is one that was wrong from the start.
If they wanted to support the news media it would have been better policy to tax the internet companies and use the tax revenue to directly subsidize news media.
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in reply to Hank G ☑️ • • •I think there are solutions here, but this wasn't it.
If you had a popularity contest pitting the Liberal party against Facebook, I am not sure FB would lose.
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