I'm always amazed that somehow has a first world nation we have this shit. When my kids had COVID there was nothing for a fever and there were guides on how to split pills for kids.
Just use our purchasing power to import it from some other country and ignore the red tape.
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So if the news companies are upset that Facebook is showing a summary... maybe stop providing a summary to facebook explicitly in your code?
I find this outrage so funny. "Hey you give me $500 for this used Timmies cup?" "No" "How dare you!"
Why would Meta / Google want to pay 250+ million dollars a year to link to news sites? Do you think they're generating billions of dollars in revenue from those links?
I hope the situation is better over there than in Ontario. Sure day care is getting cheaper for those who have it. However there is basically no availability to the point where I have a nanny for my kids.
When the wait lists are years.... what the hell is the point. Should you register before your planning on getting pregnant?
So what you're saying is there is no model besides complete subsidy for news to exist?
It would be impossible for them to you know build a subscription model where you get access to all of their news sites for one fee? Kinda like credit unions do with their ATM networks.
Perhaps offering better value to consumers and incentivize upsells rather than demote them. As someone who had a paper version of the economist they tried /real/ hard to convert me to digital only. Which is a far worse value proposition.
The public good is being destroyed by themselves. They've been acquired and are running 90% AP Wire service pieces. My local news in a top 10 CMA area is basically nothing but opinion pieces.
Our news has been declining for years as people have moved away from a subscription model. People don't wake up on Saturday morning and read a paper cover to cover anymore and they have failed to adapt.
"Without access to real fact-based news created by real journalists, Facebook will become far less attractive to users and advertisers," Deegan said in a statement. "We expect more and more advertisers and their agencies will begin pulling advertising from the platform in response to this unilateral, undemocratic, and unreasonable move."
This is complete horseshit. How is it undemocratic, it's a private company and they're free to do what they want. Canadian Government decided to mandate that by linking you owe a share of your profit. This is not how the internet works. No-one forced the CBC to create an instragram account and maintain it, sharing their own news on the platform.
If you demand to be paid for something, they're free to not pay for it. Welcome to the real world where you can't just dictate things to people and expect them to take it.
Personally I find this hilarious. The argument that Meta (Facebook) and Google are making "so much money" from Canadian News is in itself laughable. If anything they're helping keep Canadian News relevant by suggesting it to people. No-one forced CBC to go make an instagram account etc.
So I think the law is working great. They demanded if you're going to link to a website you have to pay them a share of the revenue you generate. So these companies have elected that it's not worth the cost and will not link to them. Seemingly the media is going full shocked pikachu over this.
Buckle up as we're in for a ride. Thankfully this will only impact those who bought in the last 5~ years. Pricing before then was much more reasonable and should be able to absorbed.
It seems odd to me that these are often discussed at a "server wide" level. If a community doesn't like the posts they can ban the user no? Shouldn't the Administrators try to focus on running the site and gross rule violating content and not be involved in random bots?
So you're saying if lets say GCPGrey moved his community here, he couldn't have links to his store here or other material as that would be "bad".
Let's get real here, Advertising is going to happen, donations are going to happen. If you don't like that you're going to have a hard time on the Internet.
I'm always amazed that somehow has a first world nation we have this shit. When my kids had COVID there was nothing for a fever and there were guides on how to split pills for kids.
Just use our purchasing power to import it from some other country and ignore the red tape.