Due to some revenue sharing rules that just went into effect in Canada, designed to prevent news from being absorbed by Facebook and never leading to the ads being seen on the original website, FB is closing link. Sharing to cbc.ca. People can go there directly, but eventually safety information being everywhere is a good thing.
The "revenue sharing rules" you speak of were a shakedown. Imagine if YC had to pay Tech Crunch for linking this post. They would shut down HN immediately. That's what they are requiring of FB.
Yeah except they aren't just providing a link, they are wrapping up the headline, a picture, and the first graph or two from the story onto timelines surrounded by their ads, which sends no revenue to the source. People don't click through. It just looks like "Facebook News". It's not that much different from a content farm.
> Yeah except they aren't just providing a link, they are wrapping up the headline, a picture, and the first graph or two from the story onto timelines surrounded by their ads, which sends no revenue to the source
Only to the extent allowed by news websites headers. Maybe this whole thing could have been solved by politicians understanding tech a little better?
> Maybe this whole thing could have been solved by politicians understanding tech a little better?
How often do we hear, on HN and elsewhere, people complain about laws they don't like wish politicians better understood what they are legislating? This implies the existence of a technological solution, set by technocrats who "understand" better. Whoever asks the question suggests politicians don't know better, offering that explanation without proof.
Also, for the Free Market enthusiasts out there, why hasn't the market solved this problem? What forces are preventing all parties from working out a technical and economic solution?
Imagine if HN just copied the first few paragraphs of the TechCrunch article and stole the pictures as well, completely cutting TechCrunch out of the loop.
