Chris Trottier
Meta is threatening Canadians.
They will make news inaccessible on Facebook and Instagram if the Online News Act passes. The reason: the law will compel Meta to compensate Canadian journalists when their content is repurposed on those platforms.
Well, I hope they follow through on their threat!
For too long, Meta and Twitter have got rich off the hard work of journalists while paying peanuts.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/meta-block-news-liberal-online-bill-1.6776485
Chris Trottier
@mike @mmasnick My own standpoint is that social media platforms need to decide whether they are a utility or a publisher.
If they're a utility, they have no business editorializing or "repurposing" news. Present the news with full transparency.
If they're a publisher, then pay up!
But as it stands, Meta is trying to be a publisher while presenting themselves as a utility.
Jim Parsons
"FloorWax-AND-DesertTopping-as-a-Service” is what #Section230 is all about…
• #SiliconValley #BigTech #VC’s have been dining out on it, liability free, for decades
[#Surveillance #Privacy #SurveiilanceCapitalsim]
• #SCOTUS still scratchin’ heads
[#Democracy #AI #TechnoFascism]
Steady as she goes…
Mike McCue
@atomicpoet Laws like this can have significant unintended consequences and tend to hurt the smaller players more than the big ones. Are there any lawyers/policy makers out there who know whether this could hamper link sharing across fediverse instances? For example, will Canadian instance owners have to pay publishers for links that point to publisher content? Is there a cutoff in terms of size of audience? If not, there probably should be. @mmasnick what do you think?
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