{"id":13840,"date":"2021-02-18T06:45:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T05:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=13840"},"modified":"2021-02-18T07:10:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T06:10:21","slug":"facebook-blocks-australian-users-from-viewing-or-sharing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=13840","title":{"rendered":"Facebook blocks Australian users from viewing or sharing news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-56099523\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Facebook has blocked Australian users from sharing or viewing news content on the platform, causing much alarm over public access to key information.<\/p>\n<p>It comes in response to a proposed law which would make tech giants pay for news content on their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Australians on Thursday woke up to find that Facebook pages of all local and global news sites were unavailable.<\/p>\n<p>Several government health and emergency pages were also blocked &#8211; something Facebook later asserted was a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Those outside of the country are also unable to read or access any Australian news publications on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government has strongly criticised the move, saying it demonstrated the &#8222;immense market power of these digital social giants&#8220;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/feb\/18\/facebook-blocks-health-departments-charities-and-its-own-pages-in-botched-australia-news-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">As Australia prepares to begin the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines, state health departments, including SA\u00a0Health\u00a0and Queensland\u00a0Health, were unable to post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-38z03z\">St Vincent\u2019s Health in Melbourne said it was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StVHealthAust\/status\/1362185003635863553\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">\u201cextremely concerning\u201d<\/a>\u00a0its Facebook page had been blocked \u201cduring a pandemic and on the eve of crucial Covid vaccine distribution\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Facebook has blocked Australian users from sharing or viewing news content on the platform, causing much alarm over public access to key information. It comes in response to a proposed law which would make tech giants pay for news &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=13840\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}