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   Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 20:41:47 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

   I just learned something new from a #Threads user re: laws on paying media sites for linking to their news. (See: https://www.threads.net/@aulia/post/C3r8CbLy1kI )

   It turns out that, if any user shares a link to a News outfit located in countries with such laws, the platform/service is required by law to pay the media company. It doesn't matter if the user is from another country, different nationality, and citizenship. (The laws are not the same, but the idea or objective is similar.)

   To quote aulia (https://www.threads.net/@aulia/post/C3sDO6-y1n0):

   > In Australia Meta temporarily banned links to all known media sites on Facebook until they and the media and government came to an agreement.
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   > In Canada local news publishers couldn’t login to their Facebook or IG accounts let alone post if they’re in the country, ever since the Canadian law passed. Regular users were also blocked from sharing links to news sites. Not sure if that’s been cleared yet there.

   How will this affect #Fediverse instances?

   #ActivityPub #News #Laws #Media #Web #SocialWeb #SNS

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Friday, 23-Feb-2024 21:49:54 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     To add to the above, #Fediverse software will probably need a filter feature.

     Oh, and this will be a good use of the “#fediblock” idea. If fediverse instances are affected by these laws, then a centralised list of news websites to auto-filter/block will be beneficial for all instances.

     #ActivityPub #News #Laws #Media #Web #SocialWeb #SNS

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 03:03:47 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • Robert Kingett backup

     @weirdwriter Apologies, I'm confused by what you meant. ^_^;;

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     Robert Kingett backup (weirdwriter@tweesecake.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 03:03:49 JST Robert Kingett backup

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     @youronlyone The hashtag is a suggestion system so you need something like https://tweaking.thebad.space/

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     Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣 (youronlyone@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 18:40:16 JST Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣

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     • Robert Kingett backup

     @weirdwriter Ahh! I tagged fediblock so the fediblock users can see the post, and maybe, someone will create a centralised database for news related domain names to block -- just in case these new laws will also affect instances.

     Maybe it will be called “newsblock” instead of fediblock. ^_^

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     Robert Kingett backup (weirdwriter@tweesecake.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Feb-2024 18:40:17 JST Robert Kingett backup

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     @youronlyone Oh! Like, from my understanding, the FediBlock hashtag is a suggestion, not an actual blockable action/list, unless you wanna make it into a blocklist instead of a suggestion? I believe I misunderstood what you meant by your original post, above. 2.