• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    I see the law as a step not the end and would rather further the reaches of the legislation than repeal it

    As per blocking referrals I feel the issue is more the title and blurb stops people from clicking through as is. Hence the legislation

    If Facebook wasn’t allowed to show more than just a link then they would react in a similar manner

    Lemmy has a similar issue of people only reading the title or what the person said about a link

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      If Facebook wasn’t allowed to show more than just a link then they would react in a similar manner

      Funny thing is that Facebook gave publishers what they call Open Graph many years ago to allow them exacting control over what the links entail. All of Canada’s major publications have adopted Open Graph. If you are seeing more than just a link, it is because the publication has explicitly given more information to Facebook to use.

      If you don’t want Facebook to have that information… maybe don’t provide it?

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          If said posting fell under fair use there is little the publication can do, but that’s on purpose! We created fair use laws specifically to allow that behaviour. If that is not what we want anymore, logically we would revert the law, not come up with all kinds of weird and contrived bandaids.

          If the post fell short of fair use, the publication would have the legal right to go after the person who posted the content. It would also be a violation of Facebook’s terms of service.

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              Yes, you are quite right that the Canadian news media does not appropriately understand the technology they are trying to use and regulation should disallow their use of it going forward.