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Facebook just blocked the sharing of news in Australia. https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/changes-to-sharing-and-viewing-news-on-facebook-in-australia/
Facebook has also banned the ENTIRE WORLD from getting Australian news content. Holy shit.
This is the Australian competition commission's report on how dominant Facebook is wrt display ads.
Focusing on the Facebook Oversight Board is a shiny object when the real question is Facebook engaging in censorship on behalf of advertising money. All those idiotic corrupt elites who sit on that board - Facebook just censored AUSTRALIA. https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/changes-to-sharing-and-viewing-news-on-facebook-in-australia/
This has been a long time coming, the Australian competition chief Rod Sims is one of the more forward-thinking antitrust enforcers in the world. https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/australia-strips-googlefacebook-to
Facebook censoring all of Australia shows why Mark Zuckerberg absolutely needs to arrested for fraud and price-fixing. If you don't apply law and order to the powerful, eventually the powerful begin writing the laws and giving the orders. https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/crime-shouldnt-pay-why-big-tech-executives
