On: Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in C...

[throw1230]

Trudeau didn't ban news on FB, FB banned news posted to Canada because they don't want to pay publishers.

[sattoshi → throw1230]

Surrounded by scandals, Trudeau passed a law that had an oh-so-unintentional side-effect of hiding news from many people’s primary news source.

It’s hard to not be cynical about it.

[wvenable → sattoshi]

I can't say I miss it; Facebook is actually usable now and shouldn't be anyone's primary news source.

[shiroiushi → throw1230]

Expecting Facebook or Google to pay publishers is like going back in time to 1970 and saying that a newsstand should be paying newspaper publishers for the privilege of selling their papers.