"Meta started blocking news on its Facebook and Instagram platforms for all users in Canada this month in response to a new law requiring internet giants to pay for news articles." nostr:note1e50xy5ygzkzrt8uje56w9n6724trwv7qpfjfpnq4s3pfxvmuyvxs69gpya
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Looks like an unintended consequence of Bill C-18
It's not unintended if people warned about it in advance, but I don't know if that happened - I don't follow Canada that much.
Yeah true, hard to deny it being unintentional if that is what the companies said they would do in advance and Canada proceeded anyways.
I guess there's different degrees of intention. This might be like someone driving to a party and, while still sober, deciding to binge drink and drive back home afterwards. After also deciding that fixing the lights can wait.
Yeah, the stated purpose to "pay news organizations" wasn't the actual result and news organizations were banned instead. It could be intentional, just not stated in that way.