Meta’s news ban is preventing Canadians from sharing vital information about the wildfires ripping through western Canada::Canadians are calling on Meta to lift its news ban so they can share news about the wildfires in the Northwest Territories and British Columbia.
A lot of First Nations people check Facebook because their band will be advising them on evac orders and providing updates that literally nobody else in the world will be doing (not news, not BC, not Can Gov, not NGOs… well, potentially BC Fire Service).
There is the problem…
Huh, what’s the problem? What the shitfuck are you talking about?
There’s nothing stopping their band from communicating with them, the block is only on links to news sites.
I know, man. I was responding to the comments about why do people use Facebook? And the answer is that First Nations governments use it to communicate with their membership.
And for pointing out this simple fact I got downvotes for no fucking conceivable reason
Probably because you went off topic and got misunderstood by others. The comment you were replying to was saying people shouldn’t be using Facebook for news, in the context of the article about the tax on links to news sites. It’s not very clear what your reply about first nation bands have to do with that.