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    I use facebook and make a point to like every single ad on my newsfeed.

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    ^ What does that do?

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    It's my personal contribution to devaluing the effectiveness of their ad campaign.

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    Why not dislike every ad instead?

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    or use an adblocker for any advert that is not hosted by the site you are visiting

    allowing ad trade merchants to post ads to your browser is quite a security risk as it has been shown over the last few years

    in other "news" , with the way murdochs minions are dealing with the liberal rapists , I have the feeling that scotty from marketing is being lined up to be stabbed by blackshirts potato head reichfuhrer dutton , with maybe freydenberg being lined up as the next puppet

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    Dutton's about as popular as a bacon sarnie at a bar mitzvah here- but the dirty digger loves him, obviously.

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    Facebook has 'tentatively friended' us again, Australia says


    CANBERRA (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is back at the negotiating table, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Saturday after the tech giant this week blocked news on its site in the country.

    Facebook’s abrupt decision to stop Australians from sharing news on the site and strip the pages of domestic and foreign news outlets also erased several state government and emergency department accounts, causing widespread anger.


    The company has “tentatively friended us again,” Morrison told a news conference in Sydney. “What I’m pleased about it that Facebook is back at the table again.”


    Facebook has publicly indicated no change in its opposition to a proposed law requiring social media platforms to pay for links to news content. Morrison was not asked about that.


    Australia’s Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said on Friday he had spoken with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and further talks were expected over the weekend. It was not clear whether those talks have happened.


    A Facebook spokeswoman and representatives for Frydenberg did not immediately respond to requests for comment.


    The stand-off comes as Australia’s vows to press ahead with the landmark legislation, which could set a global precedent as countries like Canada express interest in taking similar action.


    The Australian law, which would force Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google to reach commercial deals with Australian publishers or face compulsory arbitration, has cleared the lower house of parliament and is expected to be passed by the Senate within the next week.


    Simon Milner, Facebook’s Asia-Pacific policy director of policy for the Asia-Pacific region, was quoted on Saturday as telling the Sydney Morning Herald the company had three main objections to the legislation.


    Facebook objects to being barred from discriminating between different news outlets that ask for money, to arbitration models that allow an independent body to select one payment over another, and to the obligation to enter commercial negotiations with Australian media companies, Milner said.


    Facebook declined to make Milner available to speak with Reuters.


    Australia’s legislation is being widely watched overseas.


    Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault said on Thursday his country would adopt the Australian approach as it crafts its own legislation in coming months.


    Google, which has initially threatened to close its search engine in Australia, has announced host of preemptive licensing deals over the past week, including a global agreement with News Corp.


    Facebook’s move had an immediate impact on traffic to Australian new sites, according to early data from New York-based analytics firm Chartbeat.


    Total traffic to the Australian news sites from various platforms fell from the day before the ban by around 13% within the country.



    Facebook has '''tentatively friended''' us again, Australia says | Reuters

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    Facebook Inc is back at the negotiating table, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Saturday
    snigger - the lying cnut

    farcebook is going to tell murdochs lickspittles that the 4% of traffic that news has for their australian social slaves is not worth the headache or money , so they will just block any links on their sites and mudoch can suck the farts from dead dingos arseholes

    wonder if this is why murdoch is pissed with scotty morrison from marketing and he will choke this chicken to scare the rest of the monkeys

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    farcebook is going to tell murdochs lickspittles that the 4% of traffic that news has for their australian social slaves is not worth the headache or money , so they will just block any links on their sites and mudoch can suck the farts from dead dingos arseholes
    Facebook will end up paying, just like Google. The rest of the world will benefit once Australia sets the precedent.

    Obviously you have a problem with Scott Morrison, I had lunch with him when he was Minister for Immigration - very honest impressive guy.

    Just who is your alternative to Scomo? surely not Albanese. Btw if there was an election tomorrow the Liberal/Nat coalition would win by a landslide!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iceman123 View Post
    Obviously you have a problem with Scott Morrison,
    you might have noticed it is the whole lib/nat clan if you looked closely - all of them are seedy scammers - but the religious nutter in the top job can fcuk right off to his consultancy with price waterhouse cooper right now

    christian porter needs to be held to account for his slimy manipulations of Australian law - trying to hide the cnuty manipulations of the john boy howard govts dealings with the Timorese indicates they are not very sorry about what they did

    Quote Originally Posted by Iceman123 View Post
    Just who is your alternative to Scomo? surely not Albanese
    I am not so sure about Albanese , though Kevin seems to think he has what it takes - I would more like to see Dan Andrews in the top job , though I would think that after he has steered vic through the covid crisis he might just say fcuk all this

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iceman123 View Post
    Facebook will end up paying, just like Google. The rest of the world will benefit once Australia sets the precedent.
    I agree . . . and in this case it's Zuckerberg vs Murdoch vs ScoMo and tomorrow it'll be someone else replacing the latter two names - the one constant is Zuckerberg.

    Fuck 'em. Pay yer dues, fools

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    Fuck 'em. Pay yer dues, fools
    what are they paying for ?

    farcebook just puts links to news stories in people feeds - simple rss for social users

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    farcebook just puts links to news stories in people feeds
    yes but why do they do that? pure altruism?

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    farcebook just puts links to news stories in people feeds - simple rss for social users
    . . . according to a Facebook algorithm, but that's beside the point for me - have a read of the following article, it's not long and well written:

    The question every politician should be asking is, what does Mark Zuckerberg want with us? | Facebook | The Guardian

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    I would more like to see Dan Andrews in the top job



    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    it's not long and well written:
    I think you and I have different versions of 'well written' or perhaps you shared the wrong link? Like a text version of 1.jpg glitch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    have a read of the following article, it's not long and well written:
    so she cares about farcebook - I don't - the solution to the social media problem is education , not regulation of social media

    politicians care about farcebook because it is an easy method to manipulate the masses for elections

    she was trying a bit of snide character assassination to make some sort of point for journalists - and it was sh1te

    farcebook will slowly die and the info mine they have will decrease in value to advertisers and only of interest to social researchers

    as I have said before , the slow shift to more private methods of using the internet will continue

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    I think the only Labor politician that could win an election would be Kevin Rudd. Conversely, the only Liberal polly I might vote for would be Mal Turnbull.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    I think the only Labor politician that could win an election would be Kevin Rudd.
    Yea . . . not a bad choice

    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Conversely, the only Liberal polly I might vote for would be Mal Turnbull.
    He's smart and has his heart in the right place for the country
    Last edited by panama hat; 21-02-2021 at 09:08 AM. Reason: edit sp.

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    ^^ Mal is a bit of a cnut really- but heck, he's a polly. Lets just say he wouldn't make a stock in trade of upsetting our best customers.
    Kevin Rudd would be good for the economy, in terms of mending fences- but i wouldn't fancy having a beer with the bloke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Mal is a bit of a cnut really- but heck, he's a polly.
    We knew him way before he was a pollie - never came across as a cnut

    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Kevin Rudd would be good for the economy, in terms of mending fences
    I think he's a bit weak . . . lack of spine
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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    I think the only Labor politician that could win an election would be Kevin Rudd. Conversely, the only Liberal polly I might vote for would be Mal Turnbull.
    It would never happen. They've both had their go and been soundly defeated. Rudd was hated even among his own party. Malcolm in the middle could not make decisions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iceman123 View Post
    and been soundly defeated
    are you forgetting that Kevin was deposed in a coup at the behest of the mining corporations ?

    Quote Originally Posted by Iceman123 View Post
    Malcolm in the middle
    Malcolm was incharge when the NBN was fcuked for murdochs foxtel and Telstras profits

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    Is this why Kevin Rudd was ousted in 2010?

    This may refresh your memory regarding Krudd - his own party could not stand him.

    Malcolm another story but he was weak and inneffectual.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Kevin Rudd would be good for the economy, in terms of mending fences-
    He's done his dash, a loathsome, narssistic self serving cvnt of a bloke.

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