NYP:
Canada is poised to take on Facebook, following the example set by Australia, which began a war with the tech giant when the country’s publishers backed proposed legislation demanding payment for their content.
Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault condemned Facebook’s actions as “highly irresponsible” last week when the social media giant removed all Australian news content from its sites in retaliation.
Guilbeault warned that Canada would be next in making sure Facebook paid for news content from Canadian publishers. Guilbeault is charged with drafting legislation in the next few months that would require Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google to pay up.
“Canada is at the forefront of this battle … we are really among the first group of countries around the world that are doing this,” Guilbeault told reporters. read more
What’s to stop Facebook from receiving the same from US news outlets, other than Washington politicians who want to control the narrative through their news favorites.
Something evil inside me hopes this will end up destroying Facebook.
Jack Dorsey has that “I’m not very bright” look on his face at all times.
“Something evil inside me hopes this will end up destroying Facebook.”
We must be cousins.
The only way to stop FB is to quit them and quit linking them and passing the link round when you see something funny through your emails, etc.
Then, they’ll be forced to go to subscription, and at that point, they’re toast.
MJA,
I stopped doing that years ago, but they are still here.
@ Anonymous FEBRUARY 23, 2021 AT 4:43 PM
He looks like he has been sleeping under a freeway overpass using a wine bottle in a paper bag as a pillow.
Canadian Heritage Minister:
Def. Another french Canadian Asshole from Quebec who hates the English and Western Canada.
The biggest mistake England ever made was to stop killing the French in Canada which resulted in hundreds of years of ass kissing and “distinct society” horse shit.
There is so much regional division in this country that I’m surprised we still exist. The primary Canadian Identity seems to be proving how we are not Americans. Too bad, I have more American flags (4) than Canadian (0) (Pissed on and burned mine when Turdeau was Re-Elected)
No offense to my neighbors but that’s the first intelligent thing that I can remember coming from Ottawa in quite awhile. 👍🇨🇦
Those are two faces void of empathy.