Australian PM Urges Facebook to Remove blockage, warns that other countries would follow the gift’s example- Technology News, NewsGater
Australia’s prime minister on Friday urged Facebook to lift its block on Australian users and return to the negotiating table with news publishing companies, warning that other countries would follow his government’s lead in making digital giants pay. by journalism. Prime Minister Scott Morrison outlined Facebook’s decision on Thursday to prevent Australians from accessing and sharing news as a threat. The lockdown has escalated a fight with the government over whether powerful tech companies should have to pay news organizations for content.
“The idea of shutting down the kind of sites that they did yesterday, as a kind of threat, well, I know how Australians react to that and I thought it was not a good move on their part,” Morrison told reporters. “They should get over that quickly, come back to the table and we’ll fix it,” he added.
There was public outrage at the way the Facebook blockade was screwed up, cutting off access, at least temporarily, to the pandemic, public health, and emergency services.
Newspaper headlines included “I don’t like it for social media” and “Facebook.”
An article on how fake news would replace credible journalism on Australian feeds had the headline: “‘Fakebook’ shows that all you care about is profit, not people.”
The news blackout in Australia has escalated a fight between Facebook and the government over whether powerful tech companies should have to pay news organizations for content. Image: tech2 / Nandini Yadav
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