«Meta's decision to block news links in Canada this month has had almost no impact on Canadians' usage of Facebook, data from independent tracking firms indicated on Tuesday, as the company faces scorching criticism from the Canadian government over the move.»
Fonte: https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-canada-news-ban-fails-dent-facebook-usage-2023-08-29/ Un commento da parte di un utente di Slashdot, da dove ho appreso questa notizia: «I'm usually not on Meta's side on any issue. But in this case, the law is absolutely absurd. It's absurd in principle (why should anyone be required to pay for giving someone else free traffic?) but what people don't understand is the insanely broad nature and scope of the law. -The law does not distinguish between Canadian news sources and global/foreign news sources. - It does not distinguish between small independent news outlets and major ones. - According to the strict letter of the law, and Meta's reasonable response, even a news outlet having their own page and voluntarily sharing those links to their own content requires payment from Meta. To put this into perspective, my wife and I are planning a vacation to Walt Disney World in 6 months and even a Facebook page called "Disney World Updates" is subject to the ban. That's how broadly scoped it is. And while I certainly wouldn't trust Facebook itself for news sources, I did follow a local independent news outlet's page as a convenient way to get updates on local events in my city. I can't see their posts or their page anymore. That wasn't "the algorithm" feeding me Global Affairs news from CNN or NBC ... that was very local stuff that I looked to find out about summer festivals and things. Do I need Facebook for that? No. But it's no one's business if that's the tool I chose, nor can I think of any justification for The Online News Act. It's one of the most ill-conceived and ill-written laws I have ever heard of.» Fonte: https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23042204&cid=63805812 _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa@server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa
