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Trudeau didn't ban news on FB, FB banned news posted to Canada because they don't want to pay publishers.
by throw1230 2y ago
Trudeau didn't ban news on FB, FB banned news posted to Canada because they don't want to pay publishers.
- sattoshi 2y agoSurrounded by scandals, Trudeau passed a law that had an oh-so-unintentional side-effect of hiding news from many people’s primary news source. It’s hard to not be cynical about it.
- wvenable 2y agoI can't say I miss it; Facebook is actually usable now and shouldn't be anyone's primary news source.
- passwordoops 2y agoThe dude lurches from one sound bite to another with policy so shallow it barely looks at first order effects. I'm sure the impact was fully unintentional. Very welcome after the fact. But still unintentional
- shiroiushi 2y agoExpecting Facebook or Google to pay publishers is like going back in time to 1970 and saying that a newsstand should be paying newspaper publishers for the privilege of selling their papers.
- mikehodgson 2y agoGoogle agreed to the terms. They're paying $100 million per year to the Canadian Journalism Collective.