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Canadians will no longer have access to news content on Facebook and Instagram, Meta says (www.cbc.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"Is Lemmy also morally responsible to pay media companies because there is a link to this article with a summary? " If it becomes profitable for the instance’s owner then yes.

You're arguing for the destruction of the web at this point. Freely linking to content is the backbone of the whole thing.

It doesn’t because without social media you would still need to check articles on their website instead of just scanning a summary and some pictures in 5 seconds.

You're basically saying that actual journalism itself has no value -- if a 2 line summary and single picture is the entire value to someone then why is anyone paying for this? An AI can make that for free. I could be a journalist if all the value is a summary and picture. You're making such a twisted argument with this whole idea that people just read the summary, never click the article, and somehow somebody needs to make money from the article that nobody reads. Media companies provide the summary and pictures to Facebook so that they'll click on the article in the first place.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The destruction of the web… As if the web was social medias

Social media is just as part of the web as anything. Trying to carve out some exception for Facebook because you don't like them is not a logical argument. What about Wikipedia? Reddit? Lemmy? Digg? Google?

Go check how much time people spend on each item on their feed on Facebook and how much time they spend on average on a web page vs just on Facebook every day and tell me again how Facebook is bringing traffic to traditional media!

Please provide the receipts, then.

If people have to pay for links, how is that going to provide more traffic to traditional media? Isn't that the whole point of links... to provide traffic.

Facebook thinks people will spend just as much time on Facebook without news links. This whole law is pointless. It's trying to create a market for "links" that doesn't exist. Again, if media companies don't want to provide summaries and images to Facebook they can do that. Instead, all the major news papers in Canada put tags specifically for Facebook to use with their content. They want those links. So makes it valuable to them, not the other way around.

If all you just want to take money from Facebook and give it Canadian media companies, why not just make a law that does that.