Canada should run it’s own official mastodon or lemmy instance to post canadian news/communications and whatnot. I never undestood how we still depend on American corporations like Twitter and facebook to share news. Like, even for my local govt, if I want to know if there is any road works, water issues and so on, it ends up on facebook only! This is dumb.

As much as I love clowning on Zuck it’s unreasonable to expect foreign companies to act as your nation’s means of emergency notifications.

Or, and hear me out here, just don’t use Facebook, especially if it doesn’t have the features you say you need?

The internet is gigantic, there’s so, so, so so many other ways to get and share information.

Oh no, I’m facing the consequences of my actions

~Canada

Be me, the Canadian government

Decide that making social media companies pay news organizations to host their links is a good plan that will help struggling news sites.

The social media sites stop hosting links in order to avoid the payments, hurting said struggling news organizations.

Wait they weren’t supposed to do that.

Canadians are not able to find out critical information about the wildfires due to your law.

Blame social media companies for being reckless.

Crisis averted.

I’m perfectly fine with shitting on Meta/Facebook/Instagram for gestures broadly at the last 10+ years, but Canada instituted a link tax for news. They added a fee to a fundamental part of the Internet: linking to something. I can’t blame Meta for refusing to play that game.

play stupid games, win stupid prizes

This administration writes legislation like kindergarten students.

Lmaoooooo that took all of a month.

Oh no. The leopards are eating their face. Someone do something. Help.

This is so ridiculous. It’s sad that people need to rely on social media to find “news”.

Is CBC that hard to find?

Journalism is so fucked in Canada.