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Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing (www.reuters.com)
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Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing::The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift a "reckless" ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country.

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[–] admin@leemyalone.org 9 points 1 year ago

Governments are terrible at legislating in the tech and information space. It almost always results in terrible laws that don't even come close to doing what they intended.

I don't like facebook and i certainly don't give a shit if they lose money but you can't force them to buy news articles and deliver them to non-paying users.