FACEBOOK BLOCKS AUSTRALIANS FROM ACCESSING NEWS ON PLATFORM

  • 18/02/2021

Australia  slammed Facebook as "heavy-handed" and "wrong" to impose a news blackout over a law that would force it to pay for content, warning the ban showed the immense power of internet giants. Facebook and other tech firms have pushed back hard against Australia's world-first legislation, fearing it could create a global precedent and hit their business model.As a result   Australians were unable to post links to news articles or view the Facebook pages of local and international news outlets, while users logged in overseas could not view Australian news pages.

Several emergency services were also caught in the blackout -- with government pages alerting the public to Covid-19 outbreaks, bushfires and cyclones rendered blank, as well as the pages of domestic violence helplines and charities.Human Rights Watch Australia director Elaine Pearson described the block -- which has also impacted Indigenous community pages and even Facebook's own page -- as an "alarming and dangerous turn of events".l

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