Canadian government and businesses pull advertising from Facebook after company blocks news from feeds
www.abc.net.au
Inspired by Australian laws to make social media giants pay for access to news content, Canada says it is enduring "bullying" tactics from tech companies who oppose the legislation.
  • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    As bad as Facebook is, the premise of charging sites to link to others is obscene.

    Every thing Facebook displays beyond the url is what is explicitly asked for by the destination site with a set of “please display our links like this” tags, so the premise that they’re “stealing” content is delusional.