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/...
@tarnseele
@tarnseele on x
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/...
@nytimesbusiness
@nytimesbusiness on x
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/...
@alexhern
Alex Hern on x
“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/...
@benedictevans
Benedict Evans on x
“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/...
@jamesrbuk
James Ball on x
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/...