Facebook’s message is clear: Come for us like Australia is trying to do, and we’ll fight you.
Media publications are advertised outside a newsagency shop in Sydney, Sept. 14, 2017. Facebook is threatening to block links to news articles in Australia if the country implements a proposed “media bargaining code.”, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech.
If that happens, Facebook Australia’s managing director, Will Easton, said in a statement this week, Facebook will “reluctantly” stop Australian publishers and people from sharing even international news on Facebook and Instagram. In Easton’s characterization, the company is up against the wall: Switching off news is not Facebook’s first choice, but its last, he said. Facebook has described the Australian proposal as “unprecedented in its reach.
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