There 100% was link sharing with partial and full content being reposted long before “social media” arrived. “Tradidtional media” is only poorer in this current interaction because they produce such low quality content that it can be summarized in 5 words or less. If they wrote anything with depth they would have a real case for “social” platforms infringing on their copyright but you can only word a clickbait tittle so many ways and none of them are unique. Users aren’t going to click through to a clearly dogshit article.
News sources need to quit cranking out click bait if they want to draw in real readers or, they can put their news behind a paywall and rely on subscribers to stay in business. If no one actually wants to pay for the “news” they produce then maybe they just suck, let them fail and something else will tke their place.
Then keep blocking. There is no reason to set a precedent for one country saying what can and can not be linked without compensation. The blocking was done voluntarily by Alphabet and Meta and helps break up the monopoly they have on people’s screen time.
It has to start somewhere though and the precedent was already set by Australia and Canada is totally free to force Meta to obey Canadian laws if it wants to offer its services in Canada and that means that the government absolutely can tell them “If you want to operate in Canada you have to allow your users to share Canadian media content.”
There 100% was link sharing with partial and full content being reposted long before “social media” arrived. “Tradidtional media” is only poorer in this current interaction because they produce such low quality content that it can be summarized in 5 words or less. If they wrote anything with depth they would have a real case for “social” platforms infringing on their copyright but you can only word a clickbait tittle so many ways and none of them are unique. Users aren’t going to click through to a clearly dogshit article.
News sources need to quit cranking out click bait if they want to draw in real readers or, they can put their news behind a paywall and rely on subscribers to stay in business. If no one actually wants to pay for the “news” they produce then maybe they just suck, let them fail and something else will tke their place.
A couple thousand people sharing and not reading the articles vs millions doing so?
Proof is in the pudding, traditional media have seen an increase in traffic since Facebook blocked them.
Then keep blocking. There is no reason to set a precedent for one country saying what can and can not be linked without compensation. The blocking was done voluntarily by Alphabet and Meta and helps break up the monopoly they have on people’s screen time.
It has to start somewhere though and the precedent was already set by Australia and Canada is totally free to force Meta to obey Canadian laws if it wants to offer its services in Canada and that means that the government absolutely can tell them “If you want to operate in Canada you have to allow your users to share Canadian media content.”