As wildfires spread, Canadian leaders ask Meta to reverse its news ban

Re:As wildfires spread, Canadian leaders ask Meta to reverse... by HWR_14 on Monday August 21, 2023 @05:40PM (#37215710)

The law measures and thus talks about following a link. The reason it exists is that the summaries replace following the link.

Meanwhile, I have no problem with Google and Facebook giving some of the money the create to the people who make the content that is consumed.

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Re:As wildfires spread, Canadian leaders ask Meta to reverse... by _aavaa_ on Monday August 21, 2023 @06:24PM (#37216153)

Then the law should allow an exception for links which are not rendered as rich links. If it’s a plain html link, then problem solved.

Social media is killing what’s left of their business model, but Craigslist and the like gutted it first.

If we as a society want news outlets to stay afloat because they provide a service we deem valuable, let’s skip all the way to the logical conclusion of funding them directly.

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