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Group calls for Facebook, Instagram boycott on Aug. 23 and 24 (www.winnipegfreepress.com)

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As many of us here migrated from Reddit during the blackout, I thought some here would be interested in the calls for Facebook and Instagram blackouts in Canada in response to Meta’s blocking of links.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3673419

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm all for not using Facebook, but this is really dumb. The federal Gov't and media outlets gave Meta and other SM platforms an ultimatum: pay for linking to news, or don't link at all. Meta called the bluff and chose the latter. Now the Gov't and media outlet are crying foul.

It takes a lot to make me defend Facebook, but they are absolutely not in the wrong here. They are playing by the government's and the media outlets' own rules. It's not even malicious compliance, its just compliance.

Have these media and the government even offered to make an exception for emergency messaging? I think they would say so of they did (to make themselves look better). The lack of say-so is telling.

Instead they're trying to shame and coerce Meta into paying them. Well, shame on the govt and shame on the media.