Canada’s Heritage Minister redoubled her calls for Meta to end its ban on Canadian news content on Facebook and Instagram on Saturday as thousands of Canadians continued their rush to escape wildfires ravaging British Columbia and the Northwest Territories.

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    1 year ago

    The Candian media wanted money. Thus a news link tax. (Australia tried the same thing, failed too.) But FB and Google called their bluff. Turns out FB and Google don’t make money by linking to Canadian media, so they’re happy to just delist those URLs.

    The Canadian conservative politicians wanted the PR for attacking the evil US liberal tech giants. So they were willing to gamble, because they don’t actually care about the media companies they claim to have been protecting.

    Everything you wrote is true, but also traditional media is largely dying off these days. They’re desperate for cash from anywhere.

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      Thanks, that’s interesting.

      It’s a shame, because I really don’t like FB much, and I would consider myself a supporter of traditional news media (quality stuff at least) - but here, I just can’t see how they think they have a case.

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      1 year ago

      Rupert didn’t fail. He got paid by Meta in Australia. It worked exactly as he had asked

      Also … are you ChatGPT because … Canadas government is liberal

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        1 year ago

        You know the word “conservative” has other common meanings, right? But if you prefer, let’s change it to “protectionist”.

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      The Canadian conservative politicians wanted the PR

      Wat? This was the Liberals that put this in.