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My opinion is no, they shouldn’t be beholden to paying for links and having to share certain links. That’s not good policy.
The real issue is whether these apps should carry emergency alerts and information, which is a much better way to frame it because that’s the actual issue here.
My bet is if there were an emergency broadcast protocol Facebook would adopt it, it would increase the legitimacy of their platform and build up some political equity they sorely lack right now.
So they shouldn't compensate the people whose work brings them profit? Know what we call that in the physical world?
Stealing.
If the government is willing to make an exception for emergency news, that Meta proved they're able to do it in Australia and even told the Canadian government it's something they could do, then who's in the wrong here?
So Lemmy instance admins should be paying for all the links on their sites too?
Are they directly making profit from it?
They may be.
Well then, you've got your answer.
It is sad there are people like you who think everything is a transaction. Posting a link is a recommendation, it is no way stealing.
It's sadder that there's people like you who don't understand that there's a difference between posting a link and copying the whole article or a bot generated shorter version of it.