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Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing
(www.reuters.com)
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As much as I love clowning on Zuck it's unreasonable to expect foreign companies to act as your nation's means of emergency notifications.
Not really emergency notifications but news, which tbh isn't as important in this case because non-Canadian news orgs aren't affected and are covering it too. So there isn't an immediate risk I don't think.
As for the main point: The problem is that a subset of the population ONLY gets information through one platform. The only way to reach them is through that platform, and not reaching them means excess costs when you have to rescue/treat/otherwise deal with the fallout. It's also the government's job to inform people and keep them safe.
At the same time, the companies need to be regulated by the government. Can't just let them have free reign because they seized control
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I wouldn't trust my country to competently run anything internet related
Did he stutter?
Every business
It's unreasonable for a social media platform with almost 3 billion people to be privately owned.
Facebook isn't privately owned. It's a public company.
Publicly owned and publicly traded are different.
how is that unreasonable? build your own network get it to 3 billion people on it and then tell me what you think if the government take it from you. Or even better go and live in CUBA, CHINA, RUSSIA Or NORTH COREA that where that type of thought belongs.
Capturing lightning in a bottle is more about luck than about skill.
People with no skills, don't build a social media such as Facebook, I don't like the dude at all but I can't fail to recognize his achievement. I dare you become a programmer and build your own idea may be you can capture that lightning you are talking about.
Didn't he steal the idea from two other guys though
I really don't know that, but even then steeling an idea and taking it to where Facebook is right now is not easy feat to do, and again I don't even like the dude but can't deny his accomplishments.
Its so easy being the idea guy. Everybody wants to be the next idea guy.
I would gladly live in Cuba
from your mouth to the outside yes you will live in cuba, is not that hard to move there and yet you still outside cuba. I visited the country long time ago and from what I heard no much have change. I don't know where you from don't care either but unless you are from a 3rd world country you won't last a month in cuba.
If it is not hard to move there, why is it hard to move there? You shouldn’t speak on things you know nothing on. Your comments are nothing but silly and foolish
I meant it in a sarcastic way the way that anyone that has not live in a country with that kind of political system, adapt to unless they are in some kind of mission but not to move and live the rest of their live, there are reason why people from Cuba AND the likes cuba try to get out of there in masses. But anyway reply to me when you move there.