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‘ “What Meta is doing currently is unacceptable,” said Pablo Rodriguez’

Maybe Should have thought about that before passing a law that made no sense…

I am sure Facebook would gladly enable link sharing of news articles if the laws were put back.

You can’t force somebody to do something that will cost them money.

Meta called your bluff and you are just mad.

Of course you can force somebody to do something that will cost them money. Why wouldn't you be able to? Why would it be immoral to make people do things even if it costs them some marginal income?

The government can imprison you, they can take your things and they can even kill you but they can't force you to do something.

What they can do is incentivize and disincentivize behaviors. What they never seem to learn though is that disincentivizing bad behavior doesn't lead to good behavior, it leads to different behavior. If they want people to do something specific, they have to incentivize that thing.

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