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Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing::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.
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Canada should run it’s own official mastodon or lemmy instance to post canadian news/communications and whatnot. I never undestood how we still depend on American corporations like Twitter and facebook to share news. Like, even for my local govt, if I want to know if there is any road works, water issues and so on, it ends up on facebook only! This is dumb.
Canadian governmental entities (at all levels) aren’t known for their innovative thinking. Throughout the pandemic, regardless of your position on vaccines, the main fact that it was a group of volunteers in a discord channel that were responsible for the information shows the archaic state of digital communication in Canada. Frankly embarrassing by global comparison.
Wait is this for real? Source? I have not heard of this, it would be great if this is open to the public during and even after pandemic.
They go by Vaccine Hunters. I don’t think they are active anymore but you can find their history here: https://vaccinehunters.ca/about
As much as I love clowning on Zuck it’s unreasonable to expect foreign companies to act as your nation’s means of emergency notifications.
Not really emergency notifications but news, which tbh isn’t as important in this case because non-Canadian news orgs aren’t affected and are covering it too. So there isn’t an immediate risk I don’t think.
As for the main point: The problem is that a subset of the population ONLY gets information through one platform. The only way to reach them is through that platform, and not reaching them means excess costs when you have to rescue/treat/otherwise deal with the fallout. It’s also the government’s job to inform people and keep them safe.
At the same time, the companies need to be regulated by the government. Can’t just let them have free reign because they seized control
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I wouldn’t trust my country to competently run anything internet related
Did he stutter?
It’s unreasonable for a social media platform with almost 3 billion people to be privately owned.
Facebook isn’t privately owned. It’s a public company.
Publicly owned and publicly traded are different.
how is that unreasonable? build your own network get it to 3 billion people on it and then tell me what you think if the government take it from you. Or even better go and live in CUBA, CHINA, RUSSIA Or NORTH COREA that where that type of thought belongs.
Capturing lightning in a bottle is more about luck than about skill.
People with no skills, don’t build a social media such as Facebook, I don’t like the dude at all but I can’t fail to recognize his achievement. I dare you become a programmer and build your own idea may be you can capture that lightning you are talking about.
Didn’t he steal the idea from two other guys though
I really don’t know that, but even then steeling an idea and taking it to where Facebook is right now is not easy feat to do, and again I don’t even like the dude but can’t deny his accomplishments.
Its so easy being the idea guy. Everybody wants to be the next idea guy.
Or, and hear me out here, just don’t use Facebook, especially if it doesn’t have the features you say you need?
The internet is gigantic, there’s so, so, so so many other ways to get and share information.
This is so ridiculous. It’s sad that people need to rely on social media to find “news”.
Is CBC that hard to find?
Journalism is so fucked in Canada.
Apparently only 3% of FB feed is news related
TIL, that is so small how is this even an issue.
Oh no, I’m facing the consequences of my actions
~Canada
Be me, the Canadian government
Decide that making social media companies pay news organizations to host their links is a good plan that will help struggling news sites.
The social media sites stop hosting links in order to avoid the payments, hurting said struggling news organizations.
Wait they weren’t supposed to do that.
Canadians are not able to find out critical information about the wildfires due to your law.
Blame social media companies for being reckless.
Crisis averted.
I’m perfectly fine with shitting on Meta/Facebook/Instagram for gestures broadly at the last 10+ years, but Canada instituted a link tax for news. They added a fee to a fundamental part of the Internet: linking to something. I can’t blame Meta for refusing to play that game.
play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Lol, yep I hate to say it but the stick bicycle meme applies here pretty hard.
This administration writes legislation like kindergarten students.
Oh no. The leopards are eating their face. Someone do something. Help.
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Canada, it’s called parasitising a symbiotic relationship. Evolution tries this from time to time. Now we see if your law is fit to survive.
I have no idea which side has better arguments for doing what they do, but this is like Mega-tech/Zuck doing this:
