Actually applauded.   

"The moves are a response to proposed legislation that would force social media platforms to pay Australian news organizations for links shared on its sites." - NPR 

News media set up pay walls and sell subscriptions to pay their staff for their work. Why shouldn't face book pay for those stories, as well? Don't they sell enough advertising and supposedly depersonalized information on its users to pay those news media for their product? 

So...datamining people's info and on-selling it to targeted advertising only makes squillions of dollars...so can't possibly afford to pay to use a News Service...so....pulls the plug on Australian News outlets....

Fine...ego is King.

But while you're at it...don't forget to also delete any and all Australian Government pages out of sheer spite.

Who really cares you disable essential services...you know...in an on-going pandemic...and for a country with the worst bushfire prevalence...in...wait-for-it....the middle of bushfire season.

What a considerate arsehole.

"I'm gonna take my bat and ball and go home - so there!"

I'm looking forward to the backlash....from the rest of the planet...

Australia has one thing in common with the US [a lot of things really] and that's we don't negotiate with extortionists/terrorists.

I never liked or trusted Facebook, not after I was bombarded with ads and emails asking if I knew this or that person.  I think my account is still there but I've not bothered going back for about 10 years, nor will I.  Moreover, nor will I do business with online traders when they force visitors to sign in via Facebook.  

So many places online these days have a button so you can like them on Facebook.  Well fuck that, I want nothing to do with that or anything else Facebook related.  For mine, Zuckerberg is worse than a bully with an obscene amount of money, he's fechen worse than a banker.

Agreed!! Both are tarred with the same brush and neither is trustworthy when it comes to the harvesting, use of and storing of folks personal data.  Both use your personal data and surfing habits to target you with advertising.... and for me that is totally unacceptable.  I don't give a stuff if their 'services' are supposedly free [the excuse that both companies use to bombard users with unwelcomed, unwanted advertising] I don't want to be confronted with any kind of advertising online and use an ad-blocker to filter it out. 

I went to Facebook just the once to sign up after a relative suggested that it would be a great way to keep in touch.  What happened after that really pissed me off.... hundreds and hundreds of emails and no signs of that abating until I emailed back to demand the cease and desist.  It slowed for a while but I think a word from Microsoft over my email account being unnecessarily bombarded may have ended it.

Anyhow, several years have passed since then and I'm glad to be out of it, never to return.

Social Fixer to the rescue. No Facebook without it, no ads. As a side note, I never get mails from facebook except I use a new hardware to log on. The settings and tools are not meant for lazy people. 

I wholeheartedly agree!   In fact, isn't there anything that can be done to "wall off" FB at the Aussie & NZ virtual borders?   If Zuckerberg wants to be a dick, prevent him from making any $$ from it's citizens?

WYSIWYG ...

We don't tend to take crap from anyone.

I think he saw we were just the beginning of a lot more grief.  Other countries were looking at him too.

A long time ago internet providers tried suing cable companies, for kicking them off the their cable, and providing their own internet. They lost. Look at things nowadays. Things are starting to change again. What’s next YouTube. News today, tomorrow avatars... why stop there. This is precedence for more stuff, more countries. Well the internet is changing again. Enjoy. 

I signed up in 2008. It would be nice to put options on the set up page, but I’ve never seen that. You would have to had gone to your page with all your information. It would have been by your picture, but it has gotten easier to find over the years. For many years people didn’t usually fill out their information. I guess you have to prioritize looking for these things. A bunch of emails was incentive for me. Brad is talking about making a social network site. This would probably be a good idea for that. To make the options easier to find.