Group calls for Facebook, Instagram boycott
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TORONTO – An advocacy group is calling on Canadians to boycott Facebook and Instagram later this week. The Friends of Canadian Broadcasting group began asking people Monday to stop posting conte...

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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      • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I meant like the Canadian government should have official public emergency accounts, but the CBC would be cool too!

        I was surprised BBC’s instance is essentially just repackaged RSS feeds and not a place for their journalists to have official accounts.

  • StillPaisleyCat@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Just want to make sure you understand that Meta is acting preemptively to get the federal government to back down…

    The legislation C-18 will not come into force until the end of the year.

    While Meta’s platforms can reasonably expect to be listed due to their digital market power, they have not yet been listed. The regulations necessary to operationalize the law haven’t even been published for consultation.

  • Akuchimoya@startrek.websiteEnglish
    1·
    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.