Meta begins process to end news access to Facebook, Instagram users in Canada
Meta begins process to end news access to Facebook, Instagram users in Canada | Globalnews.ca
And nothing of value was lost. If you are getting your news via Facebook you are doing it wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_News_Act doesn't only apply to facebook... it's extremely broad, unenforceable, and likely to be repealed
I'm not on Facebook for the news, I'm there for the comment sections.
Can this happen everywhere, please?
This is not great at all. You’ll just have pseudo “news” organizations fill the void.
Your crazy uncles won’t stop sharing articles, but instead of coming from Fox News, they’ll be coming from AI spin-offs of infowars and AI Epoch times.
This was done in Europe, several times, over the last 15 years or so. The process goes like:
This year it's Canada's turn... and I fully expect the cycle to make the rounds back to European countries in a decade or two.
ITT: people happy that Canadians won't see local news as often, just because they perceive this as hurting Facebook.
You can hate Facebook and understand that this is a shitty law. To be fair, if you aren't in the loop on what the law is, it's easy to accidentally think it's a reasonable law. When I first heard of it, I assumed it was just preventing companies from stealing articles and keeping news sites from getting clicks. After all, that's a real problem and a totally reasonable solution.
But nope, the law actually prohibits linking to a news site without having an agreement to pay them. Yes, linking. I really hope it's obvious how dumb such a law is. They wrote the law to only apply to super big corporations. Otherwise this post would have had to pay Global because you linked to it. Similarly, copying any part of the article in any amount also needs to pay them. Even the headline and tagline that Lemmy shows. It's hypocritical that anyone cheers this on when this very post wouldn't comply with the law.
So this only counts for actual news, right? The q fake news still gets to be there, right? That's a lot to think about.
Yay, cya!
Go Canada!
I'd be happy if it makes it to America because social media such as Facebook, should not be a platform of news.