"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accused Facebook of putting "profits ahead of people's safety" after it blocked news amid devastating wildfires in the country.
Facebook banned news on its platform in response to Canadian law forcing it to share profit with news outlets.
Note that this summary is misleading, even disingenuous. What actually happened:
#Canada passed a #law saying #Facebook and #Google would have to #pay media orgs to post headlines or snippets from those news orgs with a #link back to the original site. Frequently called a "link tax", it is contrary to the way the web has always worked, and completely nonsensical.
FB had a choice: keep linking and join the pay-the-media-for-no-reason regime, or stop linking.
@ai6yr Comes of putting all your eggs in one basket...someone else's basket, which they can do what the feck they want with when they want and how they want.
Add comment