{"id":182045,"date":"2021-02-18T22:03:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T19:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/facebook-faces-boycott-campaign-after-banning-news-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2021-02-18T22:03:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T19:03:05","slug":"facebook-faces-boycott-campaign-after-banning-news-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/facebook-faces-boycott-campaign-after-banning-news-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"#Facebook faces boycott campaign after banning news in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Facebook<\/a> faces boycott campaign after banning news<\/a> in Australia<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Facebook is facing a boycott campaign over its controversial move to ban users\u2019 access to news in Australia amid a pay dispute with publishers.<\/p>\n

Early Thursday, \u201cDelete Facebook,\u201d \u201cBoycott Zuckerberg\u201d and \u201cFacebook We Need To Talk\u201d began trending on other social networks as anger over the move spread around the globe.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it is not already clear, Facebook is not compatible with democracy,\u201d US Congressman David Cicilline of Rhode Island posted on Twitter. \u201cThreatening to bring an entire country to its knees to agree to Facebook\u2019s terms is the ultimate admission of monopoly power.\u201d<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s hardball move came Wednesday in response to Australia\u2019s\u00a0proposed new Media Bargaining law,\u00a0which would require tech giants to share the ad revenue from news stories with the publishers that produce them. Facebook\u2019s abrupt news ban surprised industry insiders, as it came just hours after Google announced a revenue-sharing deal with News Corp.<\/p>\n

British member of parliament Julian Knight said Facebook app<\/a>eared to be using Australia as a \u201ctest case\u201d for how democracies would react to having news banned, and called for legislators around the world to bring the tech giant \u201cto heel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Early Thursday, former Facebook Australia chief executive Stephen Scheeler urged users to delete Facebook, as he slammed CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the \u201calarming\u201d move.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a proud ex-Facebooker, but over the years I get more and more exasperated. For Facebook and Mark it\u2019s too much about the money, and the power, and not about the good,\u201d Scheeler said. \u201cImagine if a Chinese company for example had done this, we would be up in arms. All Australians should be quite alarmed by this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Facebook said it decided to ban news content rather than comply with a new law set to be passed in Australia in the coming days which will force it to pay news organizations for hosting their stories.<\/p>\n

Critics blasted the decision, saying it will lead to the spread of conspiracy theories and misinformation, which Facebook claims to be tackling.<\/p>\n

But Facebook has already botched the ban on the first day as it scrubbed UK news sites that share names with Australian papers, health services providing COVID information, charities, food banks, and even Facebook\u2019s own homepage on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Instead of seeing posts from the social media giant, users in Australia clicking on their own Facebook page were instead greeted with a message saying \u201cno posts yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Facebook blamed the errors on the Australian government, saying it mirrors the \u201cbroad and vague\u201d definition of \u201cnews\u201d in its new law.<\/p>\n

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Among Facebook\u2019s missteps was removing the pages of the UK\u2019s Daily Telegraph, which shares a name with the Australian Daily Telegraph, despite being a separate company, and Sky News UK, which is also separate from its Australian counterpart.<\/p>\n

Four regional Australian health agencies responsible for distributing information on the COVID-19 pandemic were also removed by the ban, a move which critics said would endanger lives.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Immunization Foundation of Australia, which helps get babies vaccinated against potentially deadly diseases, was also a victim of the hasty ban, along with fire and rescue services used to warn about bushfires.<\/p>\n

There were also concerns that removing the pages could harm Australia\u2019s COVID vaccination drive, which kicks off in three days.<\/p>\n

\u201cFacebook always claimed it is a platform. It very much looks like it is now making quite substantial editorial and even political decisions,\u201d said British MP Knight, who called for \u201cstern legislative action\u201d against the tech giant. \u201cIt is arrogant, particularly during a pandemic, to basically turn off the taps to a great deal of news. It is not being a good global citizen,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Australian prime minister Scott Morrison said the move shows that big tech companies \u201cthink they are bigger than governments and that the rules should not apply to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018They may be changing the world, but that doesn\u2019t mean they run it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Matt Stoller, of the American Economic Liberties Project, echoed Morrison\u2019s concerns, tweeting: \u2018Facebook deleted huge amounts of important content on a critical piece of social infrastructure in order to threaten a democratic society\u2019s sovereign power. The details are complex, the underlying power play is simple.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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