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Facebook Bans Australia From Sharing Or Reading News
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This is not a problem with Facebook, but Australia. Their government is insane. They want to charge platforms for sharing news articles, so every time someone on facebook shares a news article to discuss, facebook would have to pay them a royalty. Even if the newspaper itself has a facebook page where it posts its own articles.
The only sane solution is to not allow anyone to post any articles from Australia on Facebook. Google bent to the pressure and worked out some sort of deal.
But this is NOT in the newspapers best interest. They WANT their articles shared as far and wide as possible. They get paid by advertising on the pages when people click through. And if people like them, they get new subscribers. They can even make people sign up by putting up a paywall. It's in their best interest to have their teasers and bits of articles quoted as far and wide as possible. It's like fishing.
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It's not Facebook's fault. They're trying to play by the rules as they're written."I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill
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