The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift a "reckless" ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country.

Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing::The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift a “reckless” ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country.

  • sir_wandelf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3911·
    1 year ago

    Be me, the Canadian government

    Decide that making social media companies pay news organizations to host their links is a good plan that will help struggling news sites.

    The social media sites stop hosting links in order to avoid the payments, hurting said struggling news organizations.

    Wait they weren’t supposed to do that.

    Canadians are not able to find out critical information about the wildfires due to your law.

    Blame social media companies for being reckless.

    Crisis averted.