Are you sure? I remember it as Australia demanding payment on media links, Facebook shutting everything down overnight, then an ‘agreement was reached’ and everything was quickly restored.
I work in digital marketing and had to report the issue to my Board.
You may have missed a few details then (ie; the mad scramble by Facebook to restore emergency and community services pages) and Australia passing legislation (albeit amended) to make social media Giants pay for content. Google also threatened to disable Google searching, but once again, didn’t withdraw any of its services. And really, why would they? They make mountains of money in western countries.
If anything, Canada had to pass this law to gain the same foothold as Australia had, and FB+Google kinda endorsed the idea that paying for news will NOT actually harm their bottom line enough to be not-neglible.
Are you sure? I remember it as Australia demanding payment on media links, Facebook shutting everything down overnight, then an ‘agreement was reached’ and everything was quickly restored.
I work in digital marketing and had to report the issue to my Board.
You may have missed a few details then (ie; the mad scramble by Facebook to restore emergency and community services pages) and Australia passing legislation (albeit amended) to make social media Giants pay for content. Google also threatened to disable Google searching, but once again, didn’t withdraw any of its services. And really, why would they? They make mountains of money in western countries.
If anything, Canada had to pass this law to gain the same foothold as Australia had, and FB+Google kinda endorsed the idea that paying for news will NOT actually harm their bottom line enough to be not-neglible.