Facebook to restore news pages in Australia
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Re: Facebook to restore news pages in Australia
#2to clarify for all who only read the headline
"Going forward, the government has clarified [Facebook] will retain the ability to decide if news appears on Facebook so that [Facebook] won't automatically be subject to forced negotiation,"
so it looks like Facebook won in the game of chicken between them and the Australian government.
Re: Facebook to restore news pages in Australia
#3to clarify for all who only read the headline "Going forward, the government has clarified [Facebook] will retain the ability to decide if news appears on Facebook so that [Facebook] won't automatically be subject to forced negotiation," so it looks like Facebook won in the game of chicken between them and the Australian government.
Despite the Australian Government's big scary words about not backing down last week.
What an embarrassment.
Re: Facebook to restore news pages in Australia
#4to clarify for all who only read the headline "Going forward, the government has clarified [Facebook] will retain the ability to decide if news appears on Facebook so that [Facebook] won't automatically be subject to forced negotiation," so it looks like Facebook won in the game of chicken between them and the Australian government.
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#5What I don't understand, please correct me if I'm wrong but don't the journalists, news agencies etc upload their own news content or links to news stories to the Facebook platform? Should they then get paid for that? Anyway, I'm into about day 6 of my feeble attempt to delete my Facebook account.
Re: Facebook to restore news pages in Australia
#6to clarify for all who only read the headline "Going forward, the government has clarified [Facebook] will retain the ability to decide if news appears on Facebook so that [Facebook] won't automatically be subject to forced negotiation," so it looks like Facebook won in the game of chicken between them and the Australian government.
Despite the Australian Government's big scary words about not backing down last week. What an embarrassment.
A well fought for and earned humiliation. They went the extra mile.
Re: Facebook to restore news pages in Australia
#7What I don't understand, please correct me if I'm wrong but don't the journalists, news agencies etc upload their own news content or links to news stories to the Facebook platform? Should they then get paid for that? Anyway, I'm into about day 6 of my feeble attempt to delete my Facebook account.
I didn't delete my FB account. Instead I restricted the permissions to make my profile barely visible and prevent people posting on my wall and then simply stopped using it.
Re: Facebook to restore news pages in Australia
#8"The tech giant drew a wide backlash from Australian users."
This is patently false, the only evidence of backlash has been from reports in mass media, we were all loving the new newsless Facebook.
On this particular issue Facebook is clearly in the right, it is straight up insane to expect them to pay for links to news that users choose to share.
Re: Facebook to restore news pages in Australia
#9"The tech giant drew a wide backlash from Australian users." This is patently false, the only evidence of backlash has been from reports in mass media, we were all loving the new newsless Facebook. On this particular issue Facebook is clearly in the right, it is straight up insane to expect them to pay for links to news that users choose to share.
Not quite. You look at any of the posts by politicians and you'd see vast numbers of people lapping up the anti-facebook rhetoric.
The sad part is that it's not entirely unjustified. It's just in this instance Facebook was objectively not being the bad guy, yet there's enough mistrust in the population that it's easy to be told that they (facebook) were in the wrong.
Re: Facebook to restore news pages in Australia
#10"The tech giant drew a wide backlash from Australian users." This is patently false, the only evidence of backlash has been from reports in mass media, we were all loving the new newsless Facebook. On this particular issue Facebook is clearly in the right, it is straight up insane to expect them to pay for links to news that users choose to share.
> This is patently false, the only evidence of backlash has been from reports in mass media, we were all loving the new newsless Facebook.
I only use facebook for extended family and friends of the family and noted a lot of people pissed off about not being able to share links.