Someone at Facebook really screwed up today. As well as news sites, Facebook had also blocked some hospitals, government sites and vaccination related info sites.
That surely wouldn’t work in their favor?
That surely wouldn’t work in their favor?
[1] https://twitter.com/Pollytics/status/1362279552160948225
The 'Facebook' pages were down for a few hours. Who cares.
People are so easy to control, that's what is concerning. It's good propaganda like this is off Facebook. As we can see the population is easily played.
Firstly — it shows value that Facebook was providing.
Secondly — that’s what the law says. Those sites include “content that reports, investigates or explains current issues or events of interest to Australians”, and so, as per the law, are news.
If the discussion were ‘Facebook stopped people from sharing Guardian articles on Facebook because they don’t want to pay for them’, there’s no obvious ‘villain’ in the discussion.
If it’s ‘Facebook isn’t allowed to let me link to the NSW government’s public health orders without agreeing to give News Corp money’ it’s a bit more obvious where the issue lies.
There’s no reason why Facebook would pretend the law is more reasonable than it is.
Serious question, it seems an odd thing to say that's dangerous. If facebook is now part of the emergency services, I'd say that was dangerous anyway.