Facebook updates its terms of service globally, effective Oct. 1, allowing it to block content amid proposed Australian law that would force it to pay for news
- Change will give Facebook powers to remove or block content — Mark Zuckerberg has long publicly championed free speech
Intense: Facebook will block people from sharing news on Facebook in Australia, rather than pay publishers for the content. It's the “only way” to move forward with the new law, FB news exec says. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
tl;dr: The massive media corps in Australia have a new law in play to legislate forcing social media companies to pay into a ‘keep us afloat’ fund b/c they're supposedly going broke because everyone is sharing news on the internet. https://twitter.com/...
A drastic move by Facebook to block the posting of news in Australia could have far-ranging implications for the balkanization of the internet https://www.nytimes.com/...
“We are left with a choice of either removing news entirely or accepting a system that lets publishers charge us for as much content as they want at a price with no clear limits.” This is... how commerce works?https://about.fb.com/...
“we are left with a choice of either removing news entirely or accepting a system that lets publishers charge us for as much content as they want at a price with no clear limits.” https://about.fb.com/...
News companies pushing to make social media giants pay to use their content ought to be very, very careful: I do not think Facebook is bluffing here. https://twitter.com/...