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“Nestle says slavery reporting requirements could cost customers.”
Not to be a joyless communist, but if we can’t have chocolate without slavery, we shouldn’t have chocolate.
This sounds frighteningly like the Google/Facebook/Apple/Microsoft attack on #Canada's #journalism act—an industry-coordinated effort to tell an elected government to change the laws or they will harm the citizens.
In CAN, people can no longer get #news from Canadian news sources, because big internet corps do not want to pay those sources.
In AUS, #Nestle is threatening the government with unjustifiable price rises on #chocolate.
Is #Capitalism distinguishable from Feudalism?
> In CAN, people can no longer get #news from Canadian news sources [...]
This is incorrect. People absolutely can, and do, still get #news from #Canadian sources online. Go to their #websites and check yourself; still there! Fully available.
You won't find #links from Facebook, but that's entirely different. We passed #C18, a "link tax", and they don't get enough #value from linking to be worth paying it.
#Blame #politicians, not the #companies, if you don't like that.
Why would I blame the politicians for stopping corporations taking content from content producers, using it to make money, and not recompensing the producers?
While the journalism industry is unpleasant in its own way, they do invest in creating their product. Meta does not. Their product is you.
And they don't even pay or produce the honey which attracts and keeps you in their walled gardens.
More than 450 CANnews outlets have closed in the past 15 years,.
They don't "take" content from news #producers. They show an #extract - a #snippet, maybe just a #headline - with a #link back to the original news site for people to follow. This is classic fair use under #copyright; FB etc don't get a ton of value out of it. The news sites get #traffic - lots of it - to try to monetize.
If FB etc were copying articles wholesale, *that* could kill the news sites - but it would also be a blatant violation of copyright. It isn't happening.
The fact that lots of #Canadian - and #international - news organizations have gone under in the modern age of the #internet is not news. It's unfortunate. Some news orgs have figured out how to #survive #economically in the age of the internet. Some have not.
More than one serious #analyst has come to the #conclusion that our news orgs are going out of business because they are, frankly, producing #terrible #content that no one wants to #pay for.
I believe you are somewhat mistaken in how new content is used and reused on some social media sites - frames, xslt, restyling and, yes, RSS/Atom snippets - go read those feeds to see what counts as a 'snippet'. Here's a link:
https://macleans.ca/politics/feed
"Pay to print and deliver news" to "pay almost nothing per impression" via internet was a win for journalism. The failures, imo, are due unfair competition, lack of planning, and shareholder demands.
C-18 may addres the first.
And as for "FB's product is you", it most definitely is not me. I dislike #Facebook intensely; I have never had an account there, and never will. I made choices based on my values.
I am not defending #Facebook here; I'm just pointing out that the problem is our grandstanding #politicians, egged on by Canadian #dinosaur #media who thought they'd get easy wads of #cash for doing nothing.