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Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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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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[–] sir_wandelf 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Be me, the Canadian government

Decide that making social media companies pay news organizations to host their links is a good plan that will help struggling news sites.

The social media sites stop hosting links in order to avoid the payments, hurting said struggling news organizations.

Wait they weren't supposed to do that.

Canadians are not able to find out critical information about the wildfires due to your law.

Blame social media companies for being reckless.

Crisis averted.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Australia tried it and gave in.