Real life has become worse than a satire
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Is this legit? Any canuckians in here?
First result: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-news-act-meta-facebook-1.6885634
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Womp womp
I'm Canadian and I can say the government has been active lately with a lot of media censorship bills so this wouldn't surprise me if true at all.
It's one of 4-5 censorship bills they have going and they're about to bring in a new one for "hate speech".
This one is called Bill C-18 aka the Online News Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_News_Act
Summoning u/YesMovement.
Yes it's legit. The law hasn't passed yet (EDIT the law has passed but the actual framework hasn't been completed yet) but Meta preemptively put blocks in to show what was going to be required by law.
The proposed law would require social media sites to pay MSM whenever anyone, including the MSM outlet istelf, posted a link to their stories on the claim that posting links is "theft".
So Meta said "we'll STOP THE STEAL and just ban anyone in Canada seeing news" and Justin cried some more.
Imagine getting bent out of shape because someone posts a link to YOUR OWN website. Congrats, MSM, you played yourself. No one is going to visit your rag websites anymore, you'll lose ad revenue, and fade into oblivion soon.
Justin: "Media failures are an argument for further government support!"
And the cycle of media dependence and sycophancy continues apace.
It's any news links not just certain blacklisted ones like in past censorship.
Social media has to give a cut of advertising revenue to the news site if they share the link or something like that.
It's kind of a no win, where just letting Google News get all the ad revenue from headline/summary readers is bad and so is not letting people share news. Basically the problem can't be solved in a decent way with section 230 in force (or Canadian equivalent).