This is stupid. I don’t use Facebook and I’m certainly no fan of Meta, but they didn’t ban news links for the fun of it - they did it in response to the Canadian government making them pay news agencies for news links that gets shared on their services.

I think that’s a stupid law, but the Canadians are entitled to do that if they want to. But that means they’ve intentionally increased the cost to Meta of permitting news links, and Meta has made a commercial decision based on this, which it’s also entitled to do. Meta isn’t a charity or a public sector agency and to expect this company (of all!) to behave like one is ludicrous.

This is pure cakeism.

So many corporate cock gobblers commenting on this topic.

Parasites like Meta infiltrated our society, did their damn best to become a monopoly, currently steal from smaller businesses, lost personal data from shitloads of people, makes you their product, and even fueled instability in entire countries. Then people wonder why a government wants to use it to perhaps save a few more lives. It’s not like Meta is a company deserving of goodwill, so are you people getting a cent for this PR work or are you just suckers?

The article doesn’t say whether the Canadian government has offered to not tax Facebook for carrying the links to news articles that the law now requires be taxed.

Meta says users do not come to its platform for news and forcing the company to pay for content shared on its platforms is unsustainable for its business.

I agree with them here, news articles definitely aren’t what I come to Facebook for.

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