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Heritage Minister says Meta news block endangers lives as Canadians flee wildfires
(www.thecanadianpressnews.ca)
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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I don’t know enough about the issue to firmly take a side. It’s possible that the folks at Meta are just being dicks, because Meta doesn’t have a great track record. They might be callously using this emergency to make their point.
It’s also possible that the Canadian law was poorly thought out, because governments are really bad at regulating Silicon Valley. Pride and/or distrust are preventing them from finding an effective solution.
It sorta seems like both sides need a FIRM reality check, and quick.
Meta is just acting in the way that all big businesses act. Canada wants them to pay for thing, so they just stop using thing. It’s all about money. Canada is the one trying to play the morality card here and basically guilt trip Meta into paying for thing.
To be clear, I do support Canada here, even though the way they implemented this was broken.
But Meta is just doing business (or choosing not to do business in this case).
Canada broke the world wide web. I have no sympathy for that. And AU failed at the same measure, so it was both horrible and unwise.