Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing::The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift a “reckless” ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country.
Sure, Canada can regulate Meta/FB, but they can’t force them to offer the service in the country. If Meta wants to completely cease operations in Canada they’d be perfectly within their “rights”.
Meta hasn’t chosen to cease operations there, and realistically they aren’t going to do it, unless they’re willing to take a massive hit in stock value that would result from taking out a rich country from the revenue stream.
Gov ask companies to pay for sharing news. Meta is complying with the regulation. They’re sharing zero news, which is within their rights.
But they have ceased serving news from canadian outlets, in compliance with the local laws. There’s no way the government can force them to pay out for news links if they won’t serve them at all