Meta is blocking news links in Canada, as it did previously in Australia, following the introduction of new legislation. The...

Meta is blocking news links in Canada, as it did previously in Australia, following the introduction of new legislation. The…

  • @[email protected]English
    16•1 year ago

    It’s not a dumb law. Musk’s quote conveniently side-steps the truth. The way it was: Search/social media website provided pointless links to the news source while stealing the news and publishing it itself and earning all the ad revenue. Original news source: starved.

    The way the law should have worked (and will as soon as Meta and X’s greed corrects itself): Search/social media websites provide link to news provider and gains ad revenue as normal. News provider actually gets visits to read their news and also earns ad revenue.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•1 year ago

      It’s kinda interesting if you look back at the history of the Internet and see how ads and newspapers just completely shot themselves in the foot. Treating the Internet as the yellow pages was extremely shortsighted.

      I wonder what being online would look like if they had chosen a smart way to handle those things from the beginning.