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Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing
(www.reuters.com)
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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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I'm perfectly fine with shitting on Meta/Facebook/Instagram for gestures broadly at the last 10+ years, but Canada instituted a link tax for news. They added a fee to a fundamental part of the Internet: linking to something. I can't blame Meta for refusing to play that game.