• Kichae@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Reminder that Canadian media actually lobbied for this. They spent like two years calling Zuckerberg a thief for displaying news articles on Facebook.

    This isn’t the result of the government just doing a random thing. They did what they were asked to do by the media outlets.

    The media outlets aren’t going to get what they want, but this still seems like a potentially good thing for users. After all, it’s not just Canadian media sites that are being black listed.

    • yaksmen@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Agreed! The media in Canada asked for this, expecting a big payday and now they are getting screwed (fewer eyeballs means less money from advertising) with themselves to blame.

      • Grant_M@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        News companies are now free from pleasing a billionaires gamed algorithm and can find better ways to market themselves. Starting a Fediverse server would be a good way to begin.