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i mean, i mostly agree. i don't get my news from facebook, and most people i know who use facebook say it's a generally more pleasant experience without news on the site.
but when i say "now they're complaining" i don't just mean random people. the people that are complaining are Justin Trudeau and David Eby. If they want facebook to link to news sites, they shouldn't charge facebook money to do that. most websites pay facebook money to link to them.
Yup, no fan of Meta, but this law was a bad idea
For just about anything you can always find "people" that complain about it: I mean, Flat-Earthers complain of their views getting "unfair treatment".
That doesn't at all mean it's bad or even that such a view is anywhere representative of what even a significant minority of people thinks.
Somebody complaining about something is only a valid threshold for "newsworthy" for a "news" media which is clickbait prone or little more than the mouthpiece of a specific political side.
(Not Canadian, don't really have a side in there, just pointing out what I see as a general rule).