This Thursday morning became a memorable morning for many Australians when they woke up and realized a series of links in News Feeds, the history of the post and on their favorite news sites on Facebook have disappeared..
True to its threat before, today Facebook has banned the sharing of news links to users in Australia, when the government had previously pressured the technology giants to pay for each road.Link to Australian news sites.
A series of big and small news sites in Australia have been blocked by Facebook
This offer is made for both Facebook and Google.Similar to Facebook, Google has previously threatened to withdraw from Australia because of this law, but instead, they finally reached an agreement with dozens of platforms to pay for the content of the information page via application.Use Google's News Showcase.In contrast, Facebook chose to threaten and eventually launched the news battle with Australia.
Not only the links from the news pages, the ban of Facebook also affects many other Australian organizations.
Government websites such as Meteorological Departments, state governments, health agencies, satirical sites, organizations such as the Australian Trade Union Council and literary magazines are also affected by this ban..
The loss of important emergency information sharing platform is particularly serious, when many Australians are living in areas affected by extreme weather or natural disasters.Now, the weather and emergency services of the Government will not be able to directly send information to Facebook users to mitigate the impact of the above events anymore.
Even politicians are affected.In Western Australia, when the early voting for the state election on March 13 is about to start in a few days, Zak Kirkup's fanpage, a politician in the election was unable to share information.However, his opponent, Mr. Mark McGowan was not affected.
Ironically, even Facebook's fanpage was also affected by this ban, when it could not share information about Facebook on its own background.
However, Facebook's representative said: "Government fanpage sites will not be affected by this ban.The actions we are taking only focus on restricting publishers and Australian users to share or view international and international news content.When the law does not provide clear instructions on the definition of the news, we have made a broader definition to respect the bill being drafted.However, we will restore the fanpage accidentally affected. "
Refer to mashable