not sure how many outside Canada are aware or care but you can't post / view any news links on facebook if you're located in Canada [Bill C - 18]

[mystery_man]

The Online News Act aka Bill C-18

if you try to post anything news related regardless if its a link from canada or elsewhere in the world on facebook you basically get the folliowing...

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/06/changes-to-news-availability-on-our-platforms-in-canada/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-shows-no-interest-in-compromising-with-meta-google-over-online-news-bill-1.6431497

p.s. there's rumours this might spread beyond facebook.

 

[Interregnum]

canada? never heard of it
must be something third world
greetings from germany

 

[j.f.🔎]

Surely it should be Johnny Fever C-18 now?

 

[Darkwing87]

Google as well

 

[hedgerow]

Google as well

^ ok, but it doesn't really mean anything...am i missing something? what does googling "as well" have to do with this thread?

 

[mrln]

censorship it its finest.whats canada going communist now?

 

[Smedley D. Butler]

Obviously they want to do it for their good, not yours.

 

[D.O.A.]

Looks like Canada is cutting the throats of its own media organisations, this won't hurt Facebook or Google's bottom line by banning Canadian news articles entirely, but the canadian news companies who pay google to advertise will lose that audience. They shot themselves in the foot.

 

[Ravishing Rick Rude]

canada? never heard of it
must be something third world
greetings from germany

We're the ones that grease up our penises , with bacon fat , before the great anal invasion

 

[Mr. Meat Sled]

We're the ones that grease up our penises , with bacon fat , before the great anal invasion

That round crap is not bacon!!!

 

[Interregnum]

We're the ones that grease up our penises , with bacon fat , before the great anal invasion

i heard they have a food called vladimir poutine
not sure tho

 

[mrln]

canadadians are also or will also SOON have banking problems too now. being centralized and controlled by the govt. so they can "track the money" as the canadian so called govt put it.
but never fear. dont worry and you all dont feel left out. its coming to a bank near you too,soon.
but it not only sucks to live in maui,but canada now too!

 

[linkskmdksks]

Google as well

Nahhh that’s insane