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1782 clicks; posted to Business » on 24 Oct 2022 at 3:44 PM (22 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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swaniefrmreddeer [TotalFark]
2022-10-24 3:02:08 PM  
Good. F*ck Zuckerturd. Hope it hits twitter just as hard. Double f*ck musky.
 
groppet
2022-10-24 3:55:10 PM  
Oh darn, if there were only another way to get the news. How much longer til FB becomes the next myspace? Or will it never since it keeps on buying what is popular to stay relevant.

/oh bosh!
 
SMB2811
2022-10-24 4:01:32 PM  

swaniefrmreddeer: Good. F*ck Zuckerturd. Hope it hits twitter just as hard. Double f*ck musky.


Nope, Canada is in the wrong here this is just protectionism. You should have to go to CBC.com or ctv or bumfarkontarionews.com to get THEIR ads and THEIR tracking cookies so they can in turn pay taxes to Canada.

Hint: Fark.com would be running afoul of the law too, it's just that no one cares because you're not going to extort a lot of money out of the site.
 
Wireless Joe
2022-10-24 4:29:05 PM  
Right wing "news" outlets will just offer their product for free, or a 10-year unlimited license to reprint articles on Facebook for $1 CAD.  Problem solved.
 
Lexx
2022-10-24 4:35:29 PM  

SMB2811: swaniefrmreddeer: Good. F*ck Zuckerturd. Hope it hits twitter just as hard. Double f*ck musky.

Nope, Canada is in the wrong here this is just protectionism. You should have to go to CBC.com or ctv or bumfarkontarionews.com to get THEIR ads and THEIR tracking cookies so they can in turn pay taxes to Canada.

Hint: Fark.com would be running afoul of the law too, it's just that no one cares because you're not going to extort a lot of money out of the site.


News aggregators basically have a stream of free journalism that supports their business; those journalists are dying on the vine.
 
EnderWiggnz [BareFark]
2022-10-24 5:14:53 PM  

swaniefrmreddeer: Good. F*ck Zuckerturd. Hope it hits twitter just as hard. Double f*ck musky.


ell, he'll go with 3

/Read all about it on my web log.
 
SMB2811
2022-10-24 5:28:28 PM  

Lexx: SMB2811: swaniefrmreddeer: Good. F*ck Zuckerturd. Hope it hits twitter just as hard. Double f*ck musky.

Nope, Canada is in the wrong here this is just protectionism. You should have to go to CBC.com or ctv or bumfarkontarionews.com to get THEIR ads and THEIR tracking cookies so they can in turn pay taxes to Canada.

Hint: Fark.com would be running afoul of the law too, it's just that no one cares because you're not going to extort a lot of money out of the site.

News aggregators basically have a stream of free journalism that supports their business; those journalists are dying on the vine.


Go look at a newspapers and see why journalism is dying. People stopped buying newspapers long before Google and Facebook news showed up, and it was because they were full of ads instead of news. This law is literally just 'you have to see our ads.'

News aggregators are just link aggregators, or in the case of Google News, their search engine limited to news websites. To read the news story, you have to go click on the link and get redirected to the original page. You will also however see that same story from 30 other sources and in the case of Fark, a discussion link. So if yours sucks, people won't go to it. That's the problem this law tries to solve. When users have choice they read somewhere else but the Canadian site that sucks still wants the ad impressions.

This isn't going to save journalism, but that's not the intention anyway.
 
gopher321 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-10-24 5:36:58 PM  
If you're getting your news from Facebook/Twitter/YouTube etc...
 
My Second Fark Account
2022-10-24 6:11:48 PM  

Wireless Joe: Right wing "news" outlets will just offer their product for free, or a 10-year unlimited license to reprint articles on Facebook for $1 CAD.  Problem solved.


Yup, all the "reputable" sites are already paywalled
 
My Second Fark Account
2022-10-24 6:13:18 PM  
And billionaires are surely happy to subsidize the news which benefits them
 
Ishkur [OhFark]
2022-10-24 6:34:47 PM  

SMB2811: Nope, Canada is in the wrong here this is just protectionism.


This isn't about protectionism, this is about copyright.

If you create content, and another entity distributes that content to everyone for profit, you should be entitled to a cut of those profits whether they did it with your permission or not.
 
trialpha
2022-10-24 8:06:23 PM  

Ishkur: If you create content, and another entity distributes that content to everyone for profit, you should be entitled to a cut of those profits whether they did it with your permission or not.


Except this is how it usually goes:

News organization: "We demand payment for our content"
Distributor: "fark that. We'll just not carry your content then"
News organization: "Wait... no, not like that!"
<time passes>
News organization: "We demand that you carry our content and pay us for the privilege!"
Lawmakers: "Yeah, that totally makes sense!"
Distributor: "fark you and your country. We're out"
 
Bennie Crabtree
2022-10-24 9:04:49 PM  

SMB2811: swaniefrmreddeer: Good. F*ck Zuckerturd. Hope it hits twitter just as hard. Double f*ck musky.

Nope, Canada is in the wrong here this is just protectionism. You should have to go to CBC.com or ctv or bumfarkontarionews.com to get THEIR ads and THEIR tracking cookies so they can in turn pay taxes to Canada.

Hint: Fark.com would be running afoul of the law too, it's just that no one cares because you're not going to extort a lot of money out of the site.


WTAF
 
dbirchall [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-10-24 9:23:34 PM  
But how are Canadians supposed to function, be it as individuals or as a nation, without Facebook there to tell them the latest stupid utterances from Kanye et al?
 
DuneClimber
2022-10-25 1:09:28 AM  
This is why I get all my news from the only reputable source of note, InfoWars.

Open your eyes, Sheeptardos!!!!111!!!@
 
pueblonative
2022-10-25 6:01:27 AM  

trialpha: Ishkur: If you create content, and another entity distributes that content to everyone for profit, you should be entitled to a cut of those profits whether they did it with your permission or not.

Except this is how it usually goes:

News organization: "We demand payment for our content"
Distributor: "fark that. We'll just not carry your content then"
News organization: "Wait... no, not like that!"
<time passes>
News organization: "We demand that you carry our content and pay us for the privilege!"
Lawmakers: "Yeah, that totally makes sense!"
Distributor: "fark you and your country. We're out"


Times are changing. Check out Australia for a late example.
 
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