The ABC are the worst with crying about not keeping up with the changing media industry and missing the good old days.. Always threatening the public with the “more cuts to the ABC means less freedom for Australians”.. I get it you don’t want to lose your job but nor does the bloke doing house cleaning in the day on air tasker and Uber eats driver at night and working a few shifts in a cafe at weekends but they don’t get to threaten to mess up your house or eat your pizza delivery or spit in your coffee if they look like losing their job.. They should though..I went through the stuff I could find, and it looks like even though Murdoch was pushing the hardest, Fairfax, ABC and the Guardian all supported the Facebook fund. So this pretty much sums it up...
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Farcebook.Fakebook.
Because how am I supposed to know if it’s sunny outside if ‘Chloe Balderdash22’ didn’t post a picture of her in a bikini with her two year old boy on the beach in her fake Gucci sunglasses with fake everything else showcased with a carefully orchestrated picnic setup with the caption - OMG Love This Hot Weather... How else would I get my weather forecasts bro??Why are people are losing their minds over this? Facebook is a public company not a public utility. There’s no innate right of use.
The only reason they don’t charge users for subscriptions is they sell your data and make a boat load more with advertisers. Maybe the media companies do the same and remove the paywalls. Anyone who’s serious about news wouldn’t be getting it from Facebook anyway.
As for critical information like health and wellbeing or pandemic information - if Facebook is your source you’re doing it wrong anyway.
At least Google had the smarts to engage and work out some deals. Facebook in their typical snarky style just switched content off. Shows how much they respect other entities let alone Government. If you shook Zuckerberg’s hand you’d have to count your fingers on the way back. Remember what he said at the very beginning in Harvard in 2004:
Mark Zuckerberg Called People Who Handed Over Their Data "Dumb F****"
He might as well have predicted Facebook’s downfallwww.esquire.com
And the prosecution rests .Because how am I supposed to know if it’s sunny outside if ‘Chloe Balderdash22’ didn’t post a picture of her in a bikini with her two year old boy on the beach in her fake Gucci sunglasses with fake everything else showcased with a carefully orchestrated picnic setup with the caption - OMG Love This Hot Weather... How else would I get my weather forecasts bro??
Because it’s a chance to attack the federal government and Murdoch (yawn) in the same postWhy are people are losing their minds over this?
i would love it if he ended up having to pay facebook, its like when george costanza tried to negotiate for more money from nbc but ended up taking less moneyIt wont last long probably.
Once Rupert sees the full affect of loosing FB clicks on his locked sites, and more importantly his advertisers start seeing the reduced traffic, this will all be re-negotiated with FB ...and Google wont be happy they are paying either.
Yeah. I’m not exactly a fan of Rupes but to suggest he’s the only game in town isn’t right either.Because it’s a chance to attach the federal government and Murdoch (yawn) in the same post
That actually made me laughi would love it if he ended up having to pay facebook, its like when george costanza tried to negotiate for more money from nbc but ended up taking less money
i guarantee that guy is behind this move, he successfully got the liberal government to sabotage the NBN rollout, he cant make money from news anymore so he needs a shakedown and he needs the government to do itYeah. I’m not exactly a fan of Rupes but to suggest he’s the only game in town isn’t right either.
it should happen, i dont understand how news limited or other media companies are losing out, maybe if people are describing the news and other people arent paying for it because they got a description, but fuck them and their government puppets including the prime minister scott morrison who should feel embarrassedThat actually made me laugh
Morrison loves handing out favors and obliged to hand out money to his benefactor Rupert.it should happen, i dont understand how news limited or other media companies are losing out, maybe if people are describing the news and other people arent paying for it because they got a description, but fuck them and their government puppets including the prime minister scott morrison who should feel embarrassed
He's a smart guy, you don't get rich giving things away.i guarantee that guy is behind this move, he successfully got the liberal government to sabotage the NBN rollout, he cant make money from news anymore so he needs a shakedown and he needs the government to do it
this is like if they made everyone who used the new sydney harbour bridge to pay the old ferry operators who couldnt make any money anymore and were going out of business, or even worse if you recommended a restaurant to all your friends and then the restaurant wants you to pay them for sending people
how about the government stay out of it, let news limited die