> Feels like a win to individual Canadians to me, even if some are upset at their inability to easily and immediately share clickbait and ragebait articles. I think those are the people we're really cheering on.
This is a very naive view of what's going on or the impact.
I don't like reading clickbait or ragebait articles that people share. If connections of mine do that on social media too often I usually mute them.
I also don't "get" my news "from" Facebook. As in, if Facebook were to try and suggest news articles to me I would find that very annoying. I use FB Purity to give myself a very sanitized news feed that is configured to my liking.
And yet this ridiculous bill that literally no one in Canada asked for is impacting me.
How?
Because I follow a local independent news outlet that posts stuff about my area that actually matters to me. These are NOT articles that people share and they are NOT shit that Facebook is shoving my face. I CHOSE to click "Follow" on the FB Page for that news outlet so that I could find out about things like weather alerts, crime in my area and local events.
That page is now gone from Facebook.
What is INSANE to me is that this doesn't even seem like a case of Facebook distributing that news. It was that local news outlet that chose to create a Facebook page and create those links themselves in order to distribute their content on Facebook voluntarily. Yet that still, for some fucked up reason, falls under this insane law that no one asked for.
This is a very naive view of what's going on or the impact.
I don't like reading clickbait or ragebait articles that people share. If connections of mine do that on social media too often I usually mute them.
I also don't "get" my news "from" Facebook. As in, if Facebook were to try and suggest news articles to me I would find that very annoying. I use FB Purity to give myself a very sanitized news feed that is configured to my liking.
And yet this ridiculous bill that literally no one in Canada asked for is impacting me.
How?
Because I follow a local independent news outlet that posts stuff about my area that actually matters to me. These are NOT articles that people share and they are NOT shit that Facebook is shoving my face. I CHOSE to click "Follow" on the FB Page for that news outlet so that I could find out about things like weather alerts, crime in my area and local events.
That page is now gone from Facebook.
What is INSANE to me is that this doesn't even seem like a case of Facebook distributing that news. It was that local news outlet that chose to create a Facebook page and create those links themselves in order to distribute their content on Facebook voluntarily. Yet that still, for some fucked up reason, falls under this insane law that no one asked for.