Problem being that despite the fact that getting your content hoovered by socials is stealing ad revenue - Facebook etc al have declared themselves the only sites on the internet that matter, and if they aren't linking to you you don't matter.
Something does need to be done about this, this is something - whether it's the right something or not is debatable, but I find the idea that this is just smug news orgs getting their justified comeuppance silly.
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I pretty much despise Meta, but this action has be thinking better of them:
Canadian Publishers: You have to pay us when you link to our content!
Meta: OK, we won't link to your content.
Canadian Publishers: No wait that's not what we meant...
Problem being that despite the fact that getting your content hoovered by socials is stealing ad revenue - Facebook etc al have declared themselves the only sites on the internet that matter, and if they aren't linking to you you don't matter.
Something does need to be done about this, this is something - whether it's the right something or not is debatable, but I find the idea that this is just smug news orgs getting their justified comeuppance silly.
Users have done that.
Nothing a little digital emergency can't sort out, in the Northern Free Land.