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Meta begins process to end news access to Facebook, Instagram users in Canada (globalnews.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by SeaJ@lemm.ee to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ITT: people happy that Canadians won't see local news as often, just because they perceive this as hurting Facebook.

You can hate Facebook and understand that this is a shitty law. To be fair, if you aren't in the loop on what the law is, it's easy to accidentally think it's a reasonable law. When I first heard of it, I assumed it was just preventing companies from stealing articles and keeping news sites from getting clicks. After all, that's a real problem and a totally reasonable solution.

But nope, the law actually prohibits linking to a news site without having an agreement to pay them. Yes, linking. I really hope it's obvious how dumb such a law is. They wrote the law to only apply to super big corporations. Otherwise this post would have had to pay Global because you linked to it. Similarly, copying any part of the article in any amount also needs to pay them. Even the headline and tagline that Lemmy shows. It's hypocritical that anyone cheers this on when this very post wouldn't comply with the law.