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Do media aggregators have a duty to provide links to public news sources in emergencies? (www.cbc.ca)
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The NWT government and city of Yellowknife are describing in tweets, Instagram messages etc. how to search key evacuation information on CPAC and CBC. The broadcast carriers have a duty to carry emergency information, but Meta and X are blocking links.

While internet access is reportedly limited in Yellowknife, residents are finding this a barrier to getting current and accurate information. Even links to CBC radio are blocked.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did they offer to let them carry the links for free? Or are they using an emergency to demand a payday?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Love how FB gets to charge for bots to scrape their content, while they scrape everyone elses content for free.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Once again, THE LEGISLATION HAS NOT YET COME INTO FORCE.

Yelling is rude, but the repeated questions that seem to ignore that Metaโ€™s blocking of links is preemptive is beginning to have the feel of sealioning.

Meta is not at risk of any tax if they unblock links during this emergency.