This law is more than just paying news corporations isn’t it? I remember reading about how there were some stipulations in there to stop companies from Cherry picking the articles that benefit them the most, while also hiding anything critical of themselves.
I wasn’t reffering to the headline but the situation in general. What I meant was that the regulators expected the companies to be forced to pay up rather than just dropping Canadian news altogether.
I think the headline mischaracterizes the intent of the ban. It didn’t fail to dent Facebook usage. The ban succeeded, showing no reduction in Facebook traffic despite reducing access to content.
It wasn’t a ban. It was a tax designed to funnel money into the media companies that own our politicians.
It failed spectacularly because it shows that Canadians don’t visit Facebook for news coverage, and that Meta was 100% correct to not pay for access to content that its users don’t care about.
I agree that the tax was designed to funnel money into the media oligopoly to which our politicians are beholden.
But like the headline, you are conflating the tax with the ban. They aren’t two sides of the same coin, the ban (or maybe more accurately boycott) is a reaction to the tax.
Was it a tax? I thought the law simply required third parties to actually pay for reproducing the work of news outlets? Basically paying for paid work, rather than just stealing it?
I use facebook to get update about my favourite artists, people i know and groups about my hobbies and not to see news that will add nothing to my life
It does. Baby boomers are not that bright when it comes to technology. Yea they might say the boomers invented the internet and I say ,sure may be a handful of them but others are dumb af. If anyone questions it, come to my work and watch all these boomers struggling to turn on their computer.
The usage described by small44 is an excellent way to use social media. Real life hobbies and interests bring personal fulfillment, and using social media as a tool for exploring those interests is smart, not dumb.
No, i just like to use what is useful to me. I also don’t like content restriction, facebook is the least restrictive with the type of media you can post
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