Facebook threatens to ban Australians from sharing news

Good to see this move from Facebook, not because Facebook is without issues, but because the proposed scheme is truly awful.

Google seemed a little hung out to dry going in hard with the messaging across its products with no announcements from Facebook.

Hopefully with Facebook's rather aggressive messaging Labor and crossbenchers will pay closer notice to the nuances of this issue.

Stratechery provided a great overview of just how bad this 'News Media Bargaining Code' is [1].

[1] https://stratechery.com/2020/australias-news-media-bargainin...

Link to the contentious draft law in question: https://www.accc.gov.au/focus-areas/digital-platforms/news-m...