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Re:Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia by ta89489544 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @02:56PM (#26170844)
I found it bizarre that the Treasurer gets to (arbitrarily?) pick which platforms this applies to and that only 2 platforms, Facebook and Google, were chosen. Maybe I'm just missing the information, but why isn't there just a definition of a platform this should apply to? I'm pretty far removed from this issues, but it smells like some large news organization decided they wanted to get some free money from Facebook and Google so they lobbied for this law.
Re:Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia by kgog on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @05:44PM (#26172828)
To me it sounds like they went after the symptoms and not the root cause. Which doesn't sound too bad to me.