Comment by _aavaa_
10 months ago
> Meta blocks mainstream news in Canada
Due to it’s abject refusal to be extorted
> there’s no way around that fact.
Even if Facebook content is more conspiratorial and extreme, you have to prove that Gen Z is worse than all the others. Because as far as I know facebook isn’t for Gen Z, it’s for the older crowd.
To say nothing of the millions of older Americans who believe anything that shows up on Fox News.
Canada does not subscribe to the belief that platforms should be permitted to steal advertising dollars away from all local media organizations while at the same time sharing that stolen content to their users without driving traffic to the original publisher. This is law in Canada. Sovereign nations can't survive the culture war being waged by American owned platforms without laws like this.
That’s fine. But Australia took it a step further by saying that they must carry the content and must pay for this privilege. That’s what I’m disagreeing with.
If people want news, let them go search it out.