Australia and Facebook....

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Seems the Aussie government is in a flap and about to declare war on FB.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9273261/F...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-5610903...

As I understand it, the Aussie government wants Facebook to pay the news channels for the content the news channels upload to Facebook on their own FB pages.

FB say they didn’t ask or commission the content so don’t see why they need to pay....

Not sure I’ve got that right. But seems a bit mad to me.

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rxe said:

Not being a Facebook user, I fail to understand the fuss here.

A site you don’t need to use gets all silly and prevents the sharing of some content when it is asked to pay for that content.

So what?

If I shared a news story..... such as the two links above.... should Pistonheads pay for the content of the links, and the journalism behind it? Seems to be the same argument to me. No one at Pistonheads asked me to share those links.

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98elise said:

AW111 said:

ReallyReallyGood said:

I thought the issue wasn’t the links but that Facebook collates news articles and puts them on Facebook itself preventing the need to leave FB to read news, and deprive journalism sites from ad revenue. Have I got that wrong? I don’t Facebook.

That's the main issue.

Facebook's heavy-handed response is to block even linking to what their algorithms judge to be 'news sites'.

If that's the case then surely the problem is solved if Facebook no longer do it?

News agencies post news stories on Facebook via their own pages. BBC News has a page, Sky News has a page. Should FB or any other social media platform then pay them for their content?

FB are arse. But I don’t think their model supports people demanding payment for items they posted up of their own free will....?be that individuals or news corps....