{"id":146600,"date":"2021-02-18T13:38:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T18:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=146600"},"modified":"2021-02-18T18:43:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T23:43:16","slug":"australians-furious-at-facebooks-news-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/australians-furious-at-facebooks-news-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Australians furious at Facebook\u2019s news ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faustralians-furious-at-facebooks-news-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=146600&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2375285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2375285\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2375285 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1302717027-655x437.jpg\" alt=\"SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 18: In this photo illustration ABC News reports on Facebook&#039;s news ban on Australian and International content on February 18, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. Facebook has banned publishers an users in Australia from posting it sharing news content as the Australian government prepares to pass laws that will require social media companies to pay news publishers for sharing using content on their platforms. (Photo by Brendon Thorne\/Getty Images)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2375285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA \u2013 FEBRUARY 18: In this photo illustration ABC News reports on Facebook\u2019s news ban on Australian and International content on February 18, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Brendon Thorne\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 3:37 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, February 18, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Millions of Australian citizens and government officials took to social media to criticize Facebook\u2019s decision to ban news content in their country. As part of the ban, Facebook blocked access to several government accounts, which deprived Australian citizens of important information.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What Facebook has blocked in Australia so far:<br \/>\u2013 All news media (local and global)<br \/>\u2013 Health authorities (and their pandemic\/vaccine updates)<br \/>\u2013 Police and emergency services<br \/>\u2013 Weather bureau (during bushfire\/flood season)<br \/>\u2013 Domestic violence helpline<br \/>\u2013 Politicians&#8217; accounts<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Frances Mao (@francesmao) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmao\/status\/1362185143805435909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Australians said Facebook\u2019s actions amount to blatant interference with their domestic affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I think it\u2019s crazy,\u201d Sydney resident Doug Neale said. \u201cI\u2019m a software developer, so I\u2019m fascinated to see how the ban is actually affecting other sites that are getting crashed.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Facebook?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Facebook<\/a> has blocked access to our website. We are not a news organisation. Australian workers can not now find out about their rights at work via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Facebook?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Facebook<\/a>. This is disgraceful &amp; needs to be reversed immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/588Qf1JbuD\">pic.twitter.com\/588Qf1JbuD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sally McManus (@sallymcmanus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sallymcmanus\/status\/1362158278923362305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is outrageous and unacceptable,\u201d Minister for Health Greg Hunt (L-Victoria) said. \u201cWe expect that Facebook will fix these actions immediately and never repeat them again. This is an assault on a sovereign nation. It is an assault on people\u2019s freedom and, in particular, it is an utter abuse of big technology\u2019s market power and control over technology. This will go around the world, but this stops. This is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Australian users left Facebook and switched to Telegram.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/reddit-user-says-research-led-him-to-believe-gamestop-undervalued\/\">Reddit User Says Research Led Him To Believe GameStop Undervalued<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893500,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}