Facebook on Thursday banned the sharing of news from media companies in Australia, but also removed posts from the Bureau of Meteorology, state health departments, fire and rescue services, charities, and crisis services such as Suicide Prevention Australia, 1800Respect and Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence.
”These actions will only confirm the concerns that an increasing number of countries are expressing about the behaviour of BigTech companies who think they are bigger than governments and that the rules should not apply to them.“Mr Morrison took plans to regulate social media to a G20 summit in Japan and a G7 meeting in France in 2019, when the Christchurch attack in March that year sparked calls to stop the spread of violent terror content.
Labor voted to support the bill in the House of Representatives on Wednesday night, clearing the way for it to pass the Senate and become law as early as next week. “Decisions that are made here shape the global discussion,” Mr Zuckerberg told Indian business executives in December in a pitch to expand the company’s Whatsapp business app, which has 30 per cent of its global users in India.
By creating a FB profile you agree to FB’s T&Cs and so it should apply to News services. No one has held a gun to the news services head and forced them to post news content. This whole fiasco smells of Murdoch’s hand in there somewhere.
You started this fight Morrison you deal with it. Leave the rest of us out of it.
Government bodies tasked with ensuring competitive market place have failed citizens and were sleeping when monopolies were bulking up ⬆️ now crying , complaining ! Wake up - facilitate creation of more FB , Google, Amazon - great opportunity to make SM vibrant place .
Carriers being asked to pay news outlets for using the carriers service = cleaner paying a householder so they can clean the house !
. As I listen to Rudd addressing the Senate today on media ownership, this is a fake war. We are being presented a fake crisis in which a premeditated outcome will be presented as the solution. The result will ne that big news and big tech collude with govt to get even bigger.
Facebook doesn’t play key market in Australia. Just told them if you don’t like leave Australia. A app can’t control whole nation.
Does Facebook believe in intellectual property theft? If so, the organisation is at odds with US policy. If I have to pay for some of my news sources, then surely Mark Zuckerberg should too.
Translation “We will not back away from funnelling more funds to Murdoch”
An honest question that I can't find an answer to. After yesterday's debacle over other FB pages, health for example being locked out, does any government pay to have Facebook pages for these agencies or do they use it for free?
Just wondering if ScottMorrisonMP discussed the farmers strike in India with narendramodi .
I run a small news and information site. I employ 2 people. Get around 2k hits a day. can I get $? Of course not....only Rupert! The liberal govt is so corrupt
Your reminder health and emergency services were affected, because the Murdoch press, channel 9 and the liberals insisted they be included as news in the media bargaining powers laws. YOU did that, its YOUR fault. You literally insisted the laws covered these people
Media are pissed they aren't getting the ad revenue they want because no one clicks on their story links. Why should Facebook want to pay you just because YOU shared a link that no one will click on People use Facebook to comment on the news and you make bubkis from that
Question: if I cut out an article from the Sydney Morning Herald, place it in a envelope, and post it to my mother - does Australia Post need to pay SMH for sharing news content?
I would be very surprised if the USA backed ScomosTantrum. FB wasn’t designed for dissemination of news media or government services. Government chose FB as a tool to communicate that is free. It is not the key area for information, Morrison said not to use FB for health advice.
Wow...Excellent. More power to ScottMorrisonMP and PMOIndia
I hope Facebook stand firm I do not see how you choose to use social media then ask for money. Facebook should pay more in some other way. But they should not pay you to get my information or my custom.
-Brilliant Idea- Let's make TV and radio manufacturers and retailers pay television and radio stations to use their broadcasts on their products :D .... anyone... no... it's a dumb idea isn't it...
Ardern wont back Australia.
Looks like two Uni safeguard
Why don't the headlines read: Morrison Gets What He Wants - Facebook stops linking to news in Australia.
NewsCorp paid no taxes on $13B revenue in Aust for 5yrs up to 2019. The government fighting for Murdoch is a bit of a joke. Multinationals have the competitive advantage of economy of scale, and get what are essentially taxpayer-funded subsidies, while local companies pay taxes.
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Well Health and Emergency Services are back on - so just the news services and we can get that from other places. It’s only ScottMorrisonMP trying to prop up Murdoch
This seems like such an obviously bad move for Facebook. Don’t they provide 30% of aussies news? That’s worth nothing to them?
The SMH used to voluntarily post content to its FB page. Why should Facebook be required to pay the SMH for content it did not ask for? Can you help me lisazdavies ? Thank you
The trouble agreeing with Scoff is, he has an ulterior motive
That's ridiculous. ScoMo asks a lot of countries to fight with a foreign private company? What ScoMo should do is to 'prevent foreign interference' and protect his so-called 'national interests' and 'values'.
Ugh this is not the same as asking global leaders to support the proposal for an independent review into Covid. First of all, Darth Vadar aka Murdoch is standing behind this, and he’s screwed up enough media and journalism
Just shut Zuckenflog down. We don't need the greedy kunt.
lmao this is propaganda
We are with you ScoMo.......
You mean FB wouldn’t be extorted to please Murdoch.
Will the Five Eyes Alliance back their Aussie counterpart...
Not trying to halt law, just not wanting to be extorted
Jen must’ve told him to.
Ever noticed that Scotty doesn’t actually do anything until he needs to cover something else up?
This is what happens when a right-wing government tries to extort millions of dollars to fund right-wing news. You did it to yourself. Enjoy!
Social media is an oxymoron - these social platforms eat away at the fabric of societies, eroding trust, breeding misinformation, anxiety, discontent, and hatred. Too much control, too little accountability - block it and forget it.
You guys should do a story on parliament instead of yourselves. I've heard there may be actual news happening over there.
Ppl are dumb if they think FB owes anyone anything imho
'...in a bid to comply with federal law...' - fixed it for you
India is the biggest market for FB. If Australia and India join hands, FB will toe the line for sure.
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Never going to happen, Facebook has invested billions in India and provides jobs. They are not idiots and they answer to Rupert Murdoch. This is the best example of media brainwashing the public for its own benefit. If you don't like Facebook, don't publish your content. auspol
Children starving, poverty, disease, civil war and pandemics. Morrison is the magician in deflecting attention to the insignificant. So Australian’s disagreement with Facebook is more important? notme
This should go well. Midas touch Morrison at it again. Uncle Rupert must be pretty mad to use his Scomo puppet so obviously.
I wonder if this is another case of Scotty off the blocks without doing his homework... like he did with China. Sticks Australia’s neck out for good lines in the upcoming election
This just doesn't sound right when Facebook is a tool for the CIA and NSA and Australia is one of the 5 Eyes and the media are all over this so what is their hidden agenda?
Given the backlash they’d be stupid follow Morrison. Unlike him they probably held accountable.
How is Australia being intimidated? ScottMorrisonMP is making a law and Facebook is complying with it. What's the problem? AFairCode
Hopefully global leaders tell scomo and the MSM to piss off, for once Facebook made the right call
why fight it, just turn on a FM radio and get free news
Global leaders need to tax the hell out of Facebook
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