Canada demands Meta lift ‘reckless’ ban on news to allow fires info to be shared
Canada demands Meta lift ‘reckless’ ban on news to allow fires info to be shared
People fleeing blazes in the remote northern town of Yellowknife have told domestic media the ban prevented them from sharing important information about the fires
If governments and news outlets began running their own servers in the fediverse, more users would learn of it and follow them into it. Believe it or not, there was a time before Twitter and people had to learn of it and gravitate on to that platform.
Yeah I don't know about that. there's zero chance I would have moved to the Federated system here versus Reddit if the government had been the one that told me to do it...
While I get that it's much easier to share a news article, they are not blocked from just posting in their own words that a fire is happening and that an evacuation has been called for the location their friends or family are in.
If it's so important that they make sure their loved ones know about it, it's probably worth a bit of typing.
The lack of news thing does suck, and I get trying to find any angle to convince meta to bring news back. But I don't think this will be the angle.
The government should back down from this absurd law. Why expect Meta to pay to link to another website? It makes no sense at all.
Maybe I am missing something here, but this article feels very /c/leopardsatemyface
Facebook sucks for a million reasons, I'm just not sure link sharing is one of them.