Facebook threatens to ban news in the US over journalism bill

Most people don't like news. They read it because they have nothing else to do.

Why? If every news organization in the country shutdown tomorrow very few people would care, and a lot of us might even be thankful for the reduction in noise.

You can argue that journalism has a role to play when it comes to keeping tabs on government and business and generally keeping us informed, however the industry hasn't been playing that role for least 10-20 years now, so what does it matter if they disappear?

Though it truth I think the news publishers benefit a lot from the search engines and social media. A number of years ago Google excluded a couple news sites that complained loudly and filed lawsuits - after a couple months they were begging to be indexed again. If it were me I'd grant the news organizations their wish then make them pay every time someone read one of their news articles.