Big Tech Backflip: Facebook Drops Australian News Ban, Bows to Government Regulation

Breitbart ^ | February 23 2021 | SIMON KENT

[knighthawk]

In an extraordinary backflip, Facebook announced Tuesday it will reverse its block on Australian users sharing news on its site and accept proposed government media bargaining laws that force it to pay for content.

The capitulation came after Prime Minister Scott Morrison called Facebook “arrogant,” warning against “Big Tech companies who think they are bigger than governments and that the rules should not apply to them.”

Discussions between Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg have now delivered a result in the government’s favor and stemmed the fierce public backlash against the media giant.

[Jonty30]

Pretext. Regulation is what Big Tech wants to protect their business position.

[PGalt]

skidMark stink

[euram]

I’m a nobody on Facebook. I have 3 friends, my daughter, son-in-law, and my son. Last week my daughter posted a message to me showing 2 pictures and few-second videos of a huge Confederate flag flying near the Orlando airport. I posted a response. Within minutes the pictures, video, and my response disappeared. About a week before that I sent a link to my son, in less than 2 minutes that also disappeared. It looks like Facebook is now going after those with friends that can be counted on one hand or less.

[adorno]

“Big Tech companies who think they are bigger than governments and that the rules should not apply to them.”

Perhaps the wording should be 'bigger than government of the people', since governments should not be operating without the consent of the people.

Companies should be operating under the rule of law, and they should not be abusing the law or the people that they serve. Facebook is serving the people that use it, and Facebook should not be operating as a dictatorship, even if they are supposedly privately owned.

[arthurus]

The caner cannot continue o grow and eventually subsume the host if it allows itself to be excised. One step back so that incremental steps forward can resume.

[Bearshouse]

Friends, family and co-workers have asked me why I don’t have a FB account for years. I get emails from FB saying that someone or other has requested me to join and accept their friend request. I have repeatedly refused out of the firm belief that they don’t need my info. I love the concept of being able to keep up with friends and family easily, but really hate what they do with the information and the power they have to decide what is allowable. I would love a better option.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(from the article): Facebook announced Tuesday it will reverse its block on Australian users sharing news on its site
and accept proposed government media bargaining laws that force it to pay for content."

Don't try that with Giggle, .. 'cause
they think they own the world and all it's intellectual property
and they act like it.
Fakebook is only a 'tiny tot', when in comparison to the megalithic monster.

[norwaypinesavage]

A few people become fabulously rich because of brilliance, hard work, and a near perfect business model. Others are simply lucky. I believe most recent billionaires are the latter. Zuckerberg clearly fits that description. This simply further proves that he’s a self centered doofus that happened to hit it big. Never forget that he started Facebook to get even with a girlfriend that dumped him. She was right.

[MissEdie]

I watched a story n this earlier today on the BBC. From what I gathered, the Aussies caved in that they were not going to require the big tech companies to pay for news after all.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Any government that relies in Facebook for any if its operations or communications is SUSPECT. This is proof millennial aides are in charge, not leaders.

[GOP Poet]

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[TBP]

They want a regulatory structure that prevents the next Facebook or the next Twitter from being able to succeed.

They should instead be hit with a regulatory structure that empowers competition.