Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing::The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift a “reckless” ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country.
Canada should run it’s own official mastodon or lemmy instance to post canadian news/communications and whatnot. I never undestood how we still depend on American corporations like Twitter and facebook to share news. Like, even for my local govt, if I want to know if there is any road works, water issues and so on, it ends up on facebook only! This is dumb.
As much as I love clowning on Zuck it’s unreasonable to expect foreign companies to act as your nation’s means of emergency notifications.
It’s unreasonable for a social media platform with almost 3 billion people to be privately owned.
how is that unreasonable? build your own network get it to 3 billion people on it and then tell me what you think if the government take it from you. Or even better go and live in CUBA, CHINA, RUSSIA Or NORTH COREA that where that type of thought belongs.
Capturing lightning in a bottle is more about luck than about skill.
People with no skills, don’t build a social media such as Facebook, I don’t like the dude at all but I can’t fail to recognize his achievement. I dare you become a programmer and build your own idea may be you can capture that lightning you are talking about.
Or, and hear me out here, just don’t use Facebook, especially if it doesn’t have the features you say you need?
The internet is gigantic, there’s so, so, so so many other ways to get and share information.
Oh no, I’m facing the consequences of my actions
~Canada
Be me, the Canadian government
Decide that making social media companies pay news organizations to host their links is a good plan that will help struggling news sites.
The social media sites stop hosting links in order to avoid the payments, hurting said struggling news organizations.
Wait they weren’t supposed to do that.
Canadians are not able to find out critical information about the wildfires due to your law.
Blame social media companies for being reckless.
Crisis averted.
play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Lol, yep I hate to say it but the stick bicycle meme applies here pretty hard.
This administration writes legislation like kindergarten students.
I’m perfectly fine with shitting on Meta/Facebook/Instagram for gestures broadly at the last 10+ years, but Canada instituted a link tax for news. They added a fee to a fundamental part of the Internet: linking to something. I can’t blame Meta for refusing to play that game.
Oh no. The leopards are eating their face. Someone do something. Help.
Lmaoooooo that took all of a month.
Canada, it’s called parasitising a symbiotic relationship. Evolution tries this from time to time. Now we see if your law is fit to survive.
