There’s two ways to comply with Canada’s recent legislation regarding online news: either pay every time a user on your social media platform links to said news, or block the link and pay nothing. Meta has chosen the latter option.
The federal government’s response: We demand that you make a different choice! If you don’t, well, …. we’ll complain a lot because what else can you do when you’ve painted yourself into a corner.
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.
Chris Bittle, a legislator for the ruling Liberal Party, complained on Thursday that “Meta’s actions to block news are reckless and irresponsible.”
Meta’s response is appropriate: FU, Trudeau.
Actually, the government’s actions were ” reckless and irresponsible” for passing the legislation in the first place.
See, even corrupt Liberals hate their own policies. For once the gangster Liberal/NDP Party are right , C-18 and C-11 are reckless and irresponsible.
There was news on Facebook? Who knew. Besides, isn’t FB just for old folks like me? Going the way of CTV and CBC but w/o the subsidies
CTV’s running ads on radio with a doomsday voice warning that without Meta providing links, we’ll be left without an information source. Save yourself – download the CTV app – hurry, hurry, time’s running out!!
I have been informing my family and friends about the forest fire in the Kelowna area via Email Text and forwarding internet links via Text or Email.
Doesn’t anyone remember life before social media?
Plus I hate Mark Zuckerberg and prefer not to use his manipulative social media empire to do whatever I do.
Is it still legal to hate a snake in the grass like Zuck?
Youtube has many clips reporting what is happening … Just go to YouTube and search for it ….
Link?
Here’s one.
https://www.gadgets360.com/apps/news/meta-ban-on-domestic-news-facebook-instagram-requested-removal-canada-government-4311541
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-demands-meta-lift-reckless-ban-on-news-to-allow-fires-info-to-be-shared-1.6525390
Tin pot dictator of irrelevant Banana Republic frustrated that it can’t control foreign-based private crony capitalists despite being political bedfellows.
This.
The CDN government and media got what they asked for. The links they got, for free, from Meta and Google were the only thing driving clicks to their sites at all, the fools had it completely backwards. Only problem is, the gov will of course backstop Bell, Postmedia (really the Yankee co. Chatham Assett Management), et al, with yet more taxpayer dollars.
Well, they could always seize bank accounts- after all it is an emergency, so they will probably start with everyone here. And then they could charge GST on that, just like the carbon tax.
Yup. They’d effin well steal from us before they’d try to sieze the assets of the Ivory Tower Trash that control the net.
The Liberal’s actions to shake down and extort $$$ from Meta is reckless and irresponsible. Although overall less exposure to Canada MSM is a good thing.
We are all better off with fewer links to the mainstream media. Too bad the independent real news sites like Zinchuk’s are caught in the crossfire.
What will people do if they can’t read day-old news about emergencies? Maybe the government could provide a website for emergencies, I mean they have the latest data. Wouldn’t they be the ones best suited to keep people informed?
I’ll get right on it as soon as I’m done with this coffee, Arty.
Oh wait… It’ll be lunch time then. I’ll get right on it after I get back from lunch, Arty.
Snap! I forgot that they are installing bike lanes on the street where my favorite lunch spot is. Traffic and parking are brutal. I should be back from lunch by 4:00, so I’ll jump on it then, Arty.
Dang! I forgot about our daily staff meeting at 4:00. our boss drones on and on and on, usually until it’s time to go home. I guess I’ll start in on that in the morning, Arty. Right after I’ve had my coffee.
Take the rest of the week off.
Statist government increases the cost of business and gives nothing in return by propaganda, then blames the producers.
Those expecting something for nothing then gum up the works so we all end up getting nothing for something. IYI despotism.
Winston Churchill, who knew a thing or two about unchecked and unchained ineffective statism of big, bad government:
“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” … and … “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
I guess there will be a bunch of people employed to post links on socialist media sites let go soon
maybe they can lean to coal
Love it!
Trying to choose sides between the Liberal-NDP government and Meta/Google is like trying to choose sides in the Iraq-Iran War during the late 1980s. And the additional law making the corrupt CRTC police internet news sites is pure evil.
In reality nobody other than those employed in our corrupt “News” industry gives a damn.
Suck it, Leftards.
I’m actually thinking that the #Libranos will resort to bringing in a “Canadian Facebook / Instagram” to compete, and the CRTC ruling that all Canadian internet providers must supply a link to it for new internet clients. Which will then push 1000’s more to Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet service … and the #Libranos will then call this a “success”
Yes, It will fail comprehensively, but their ideology knows no bounds.
The Blacklock article claiming Libs EV battery subsidies exceed the Cdn automotive manufacturing revenue is the “tell”.
Can’t fix stupid.
Burning down the house
The most dangerous place to be in Canada the last 3.6 years was in front of a screen getting Canadian ‘news.’
The delicious irony is that Meta and Facebook can continue to ignore the Leisure Suit Larry government indefinitely without penalty.
Leisure Suit Larry not so much.