Facebook gives no shits about being a “good corporate citizen”, Facebook isn’t here to negotiate with your piddly nation state, Facebook doesn’t care for your legacy media’s demands to be propped up and if you want to legislate against them they will tell you to fuck right off

The punchline is the Australian government and media, who have drastically failed to understand how their relationship to power has changed in a digital world of privately-owned social media ecosystems

What makes the decision by Facebook to block link posting by pages that are designated as “news” harder to recover from is Australia has very little mainstream civil society organising outside Facebook

All the bushfire relief, flood response by volunteers tends to flow through Facebook, in lieu of other civil society organising spaces

Surveillance capitalism orgs are not the civil society organising spaces you were looking for

I wonder how many advertiser views legacy media lost today.

I’m just here to say I sincerely hate it all: Facebook, Australia’s news media, the government and the civil society captured by online corporate organising spaces