Facebook owner Meta to remove news from platform if Congress passes media bill

https://wkzo.com/2022/12/05/facebook-owner-meta-to-remove-news-from-its-platform-if-congress-passes-media-bill/

by orionion • 4 years ago

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A similar Australian law, which took effect in March 2021 after talks with the big tech firms led to a brief shutdown of Facebook news feeds in the country, has largely worked, a government report said.

shapefrog• 4 years ago

led to a brief shutdown of Facebook news feeds
the country, has largely worked, a government report said

nothing of value was lost

kmlx4• 4 years ago

i still can’t believe facebook and alphabet folded when it came to news in australia. they should have stayed the course. and predictably they opened up a can of worms: https://www.euronews.com/2022/03/03/neighbouring-rights-goog...

the best way forward is to go back and ban news orgs from google, facebook, etc in countries where governments are captured by these media conglomerates. if the laws forbid this course of action then these companies should close down their local offices. google/fb can afford to make less money, and in this case they should.

braingenious2• 4 years ago

I don’t follow what you’re saying. Can you elaborate on the “shoulds” here? What principles are so important that giant corporations should leave money on the table to rightfully uphold them?

kmlx4• 4 years ago

links and the nature of the internet.

if i post a link to a news site on this forum, should the forum pay the news site for the traffic the news site gets? of course not.

chownie4• 4 years ago

Google displaying story snippets on the search pages obviate the need to actually visit the site itself (and load ads, content, etc) and by doing so materially harm news sites. If Google want to use the content rather than just link to it then I think compensation is fair.

djbebs• 4 years ago

The content is uncopyrightable...

mccorrinall2• 4 years ago

If they don’t want to be spidered maybe just use robots.txt

They can’t have both: exposure AND content only available on their platform

kmlx4• 4 years ago

Google displaying story snippets on the search pages obviate the need to actually visit the site itself (and load ads, content, etc) and by doing so materially harm news sites.

no, the real issue here is that news sites had their business model broken for the past 20 years. they don’t know how to fix it. they are now click baiting machines. which is deepening their broken business models as trust in them is gone. this new scheme is them gasping for revenue.

seanhunter• 4 years ago

Who would be banning the news orgs in countries where the government is captured by them? That captive government?

Why is the public interest best served by the government siding with google/facebook etc over the news orgs themselves?

kmlx4• 4 years ago

Who would be banning the news orgs in countries where the government is captured by them? That captive government?

google and fb should be banning their news sites in countries where governments are captured.

Why is the public interest best served by the government siding with google/facebook etc over the news orgs themselves?

the governments would not be siding with google/facebook but with the public. there is no public interest best served by breaking the nature of linking on the internet.

mkoryak• 4 years ago

Next can they remove ads that look like posts and have taken over 80% of the feed

j33zusjuice• 4 years ago

Gonna be a hard no on that one. Sorry, champ.

animitronix• 4 years ago

I fail to see any problem here. A newsless Facebook 100% sounds like a win.

specialist• 4 years ago

Yup. Their news feed is just an algorithmic hate machine. Facebook was almost ideal (conceptually) beforehand.

My future perfect social media is persistent chat for friends and family. I just want to see babies, puppies, weddings, funerals, holidays, and all the other important life events of my nearest and dearest.

hn_version_0023• 4 years ago

My family accomplishes that with a group chats in Messages on our iPhones, and shared albums from Photos, again, iPhones.

I don't think any of us use anything else at this point.

yrgulation• 4 years ago

Funny but this might save facebook. Going back to pictures of food and cats might make people return to that platform.

anjel• 4 years ago

Google and Facebook have incrementally destryed the fourth estate for decades so that's quite the flex claiming newspapers actually are grateful for Meta's "beneficence."

hatenberg• 4 years ago

They are bluffing. Despite fake metrics to the contrary, news drives vast amount of secondary engagement on their platform and removing the news tab would not remove the regulatory effect (news still happen in feed)

Worse for them it would harm republicans who rely on the radicalization engine and will respond to it in a hostile way. they are bluffing.

Facebook owner Meta to remove news from platform if Congress passes media bill

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