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I tried to post several links to news on this topic to Facebook just now. Would not let me. Now all posts except ads are blank now. I guess that's my "punishment". Fuck you Facebook!
Have you been living under a rock? Canadian news isn't allowed on Facebook because our government decided Facebook had to pay to host news links and they weren't even close to making a deal before they signed it into law. It was a political stunt. Government gets to pretend they're putting pressure on big tech, then they can blame big tech when their shitty terms aren't accepted, then in a couple years when they make a deal they can act like they won.
I tried posting a link from NPR also
You can't share or view any news on Facebook, not just Canadian
FYI for Facebook to be exempt from C-18 they had to ban all news and not just Canadian news.
That's not true, and doesn't even make sense... how would the Canadian government force Meta and Google to pay non Canadian corporations for news?
If they have news content, regardless of where the organization is based, they are a "digital news intermediary". As a digital news intermediary they are thus subject to the law and may be made to pay Canadian news organizations. Note that the law doesn't make them pay for foreign news, but the presence of foreign news is enough to allow the CRTC to make them pay for Canadian news.
Michael Geist explains it here: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/08/why-is-meta-blocking-all-news-links-because-bill-c-18-covers-all-news-outlets/
So they block Canadian news and don't have to pay for Canadian news. It's functionally the same regardless.
Yes but they also have to block foreign news too, not just Canadian news.
Ah I see what your saying, they geoblock all news for Canadians.