"It’s hard to think of a better way for a platform [Facebook] to anger a nation and destroy what’s left of its own reputation than to block health and hospital sites in a pandemic, emergency service sites in a state that recently battled bushfires and the sites of innumerable welfare groups, charities and community organisations, all in a bid to avoid making payments under a new media bargaining code that aims to address the power imbalance between media companies and the big tech platforms.

It’s hard to think of how to look more like an arrogant international monopoly not taking a country and its proposed laws seriously than to implement a ban with no warning and in such a ham-fisted way that a radio station could get its page back up by listing itself as a gift shop and users could still post news articles if they were posted as a link to a tweet. This is a company so sure of its capacity to bully that it was prepared to push the big 'destroy news in Australia” button apparently without spending even a moment thinking through the consequences."

The whole article is priceless.-

(Particularly when it speaks of the relative "ease" of censoring factual news sources vs. F'book's mishandling, to date, of disinformation and fakery, and the usual poison it spreads unto which it sells ads ...)