There’s a tug of war going on about who controls news...

There’s a tug of war going on about who controls news distribution and on which terms.

Like 18 Aug 2023 at 19:14 | Open on social.coop

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@J12t is Facebook going to stop having the “marked safe during…” for newsworthy events in Canada?

18 Aug 2023 at 22:16 | Open on mastodon.social

@J12t But the news ban is Canada's news ban.

Canada can lift the news ban any time Canada wants to, all they have to do it no longer have laws taxing sharing news.

Facebook doesn't want it, they are just doing what Canada asks.

😞 I hate when I have to admit Facebook are in the right.

18 Aug 2023 at 22:42 | Open on boing.world

@pre What you outline is the surface-level here and now dispute. But it occurred to me there is a much larger war going on.

19 Aug 2023 at 0:02 | Open on social.coop

@J12t And to be honest it might take Canada longer to change a law than a fire to burn a town so maybe emergency exemptions are called for.

But indeed, copyright and data-ownership between the mega-corps and the governments and the people is the larger war of the decade.

19 Aug 2023 at 0:04 | Open on boing.world