The entire city of #Yellowknife is being evacuated. This is unprecedented and terrifying.
And thousands of citizens aren’t aware because Meta continues to block news in the country.
This is what happens when citizens are convinced to use an American multinational corporation as their community’s primary communications channel — a corporation that couldn’t give two shits about anything except its “fiduciary duty” to shareholders.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nwt-wildfire-emergency-update-august-16-1.6938756
@tod My understanding is that Canadian law is what prevents Facebook from linking to news in that country.
As an American, I have firsthand experience with incompetent legislators passing stupid laws designed to kill people. Welcome to the club.
@UncivilServant Close, but not quite. The law makes social media have to pay traditional media any time someone posts a link to that traditional media on social media. So, the law doesn't "prevent" them from linking to news, but it does make it prohibitively expensive to the point where social media blocking the news was an expected and inevitable outcome.
