• wahming@monyet.cc
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    1 year ago

    Stop being pedantic. It was very clear what the effect of the regulations would be. We’ve seen the same scenario play out previously. The media industry decided to push for it anyway, and pikachusurprisedface when it turned out to bite them on the ass.

    • Victor Villas
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      1 year ago

      Sure, it was predictable and self inflicted.

      But I think saying “Facebook was forced” is factually wrong in a meaningful way, hence to me deserving of correction.

    • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Pedantry is warranted in this case because Facebook was siphoning away millions of dollars of revenue from news outlets by scraping stories and regurgitating them without attribution or proper royalties. I’ve been quite pleased by this legislation in how much it’s allowed second tier news services like the Sun and Straight to actually get a fair share for their reporting.

      • wahming@monyet.cc
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        1 year ago

        That’s pretty inaccurate. Like Google, news outlets could set automated policies regarding how much scraping and summarising was allowed. The publishers wanted to have their cake and eat it too.