• Yezzey@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I tried to post several links to news on this topic to Facebook just now. Would not let me. Now all posts except ads are blank now. I guess that’s my “punishment”. Fuck you Facebook!

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      1 year ago

      Have you been living under a rock? Canadian news isn’t allowed on Facebook because our government decided Facebook had to pay to host news links and they weren’t even close to making a deal before they signed it into law. It was a political stunt. Government gets to pretend they’re putting pressure on big tech, then they can blame big tech when their shitty terms aren’t accepted, then in a couple years when they make a deal they can act like they won.

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        1 year ago

        FYI for Facebook to be exempt from C-18 they had to ban all news and not just Canadian news.

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          1 year ago

          That’s not true, and doesn’t even make sense… how would the Canadian government force Meta and Google to pay non Canadian corporations for news?