SuburbanFarmer wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 2:57 pmI love it. Have fun in the desert paying for your own power and water morons!C-Mag wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 2:21 pm Big Tech wants to form their own nations within the USA
https://notthebee.com/article/oh-come-o ... y-theor-oh
I liked FaceBook's response of simply blocking the articles.TheOneX wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 4:49 pm Personally, I kind of like Australia's approach, treat posting news articles as copyright infringement, and force Facebook, Google, etc. to pay copyright fees for any money they make on those posts.
Damnit Australia, you had a good thing going for you.DBTrek wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 4:54 pmI liked FaceBook's response of simply blocking the articles.TheOneX wrote: Fri Feb 19, 2021 4:49 pm Personally, I kind of like Australia's approach, treat posting news articles as copyright infringement, and force Facebook, Google, etc. to pay copyright fees for any money they make on those posts.
Like ... ok, fine. We won't host that content.
Seems like it should've been a done deal, right?
"If you host this you have to pay"
"Ok, we will not host it"
But now the Australian government is going "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!" and I'm just over here like "WTF, Australia? They don't owe your press free distribution, much less the indignity of having to pay you for distributing your content".
Fucking governments.
