Facebook Just Banned Basically The Entire Country Of Australia In Most Insane Act Of Censorship Ever
@Wetrix damn. I personally understand. I hate Facebook but the government just said "you're going to pay our media companies for delivering their content to their audience" I'd probably do the same thing.
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@fm well that's not it all actually.
Australia is saying under the fair agreement act they should get paid for the news that Facebook gets on it's site for free and then makes billions in adds and revenue and never giving a nickel to the people that produced that news/article /story etc when they never put it on their site in the first place.
"You're benefitting from our articles being shared on your site, and we are losing money. If you want to benefit from our articles being shared on your site you're going to us e to pay us."
And Facebook's response: "You're right. Tell you what, we won't share your articles on our site anymore, problem solved."
If Facebook no longer doing what was supposedly hurting these companies hurts these companies even more, that means the justification for this law is bullshit and it is an excuse for failing businesses to extort money from their competitors. If I ran a business that helped people share articles with each other, and the authors of those articles came to me and said "you letting people spread our content hurts our business and so if you continue to do it you owe us money" I'd do the exact same thing. "Oh it hurts your business? Alright I'll stop." Problem solved, right?