[ptsal]

Meet your masters-

It didn’t notify affected pages in advance they would be blocked or provide a system for them to appeal once they were.

The documents also show multiple Facebook employees tried to raise alarms about the impact and offer possible solutions, only to receive a minimal or delayed response from the leaders of the team in charge.

Informative article archived:::https://archive.ph/ye6um

[Flick Lives]

The goal, according to the whistleblowers and documents, was to exert maximum negotiating leverage over the Australian Parliament, which was voting on the first law in the world that would require platforms such as Google and Facebook to pay news outlets for content.

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Big Tech runs the governments.

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
(1984)

[Robert DeLong]

I’m sure if that law were passed here, it would eventually impact Free Republic negatively also.

[fruser1]

Sorta like closing the DMV when there’s a budget shortfall.