Facebook BLOCKING NEWS for Aussies

Are y’all jealous? I would be if I wasn’t Aussie.

No biased media clogging up my feed. I get my news from outside fb from sources I trust (yes, both left and right). Who needs FB for that? Apparently I’m supposed to be upset. I don’t get why. This is great.

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This isn’t FB.

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This isn’t WoW related.

Good for Australia, though.

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This true. But people post things not related to wow all the time. So… it’s ok. Something to lighten up the mood.

Better than another thread about casuals vs elites right?

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I already don’t have biased media clogging up my feed, instead I have

And of course Wild Turkey ads, beard oil ads, etc. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any news that wasn’t posted by someone on my friends list. Unless you count Bernie Sanders sitting cross legged in mittens shirts and figurines as biased media.

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That is banned too. All Aussie news.

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Well now that’s censoring and I doubt anyone would be jealous of that lol.

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If you have a Facebook, I’d step back and reevaluate your life.

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Your post has good potential, you should make it a thread and I bet you people will come in there raging :+1:

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Ah, I can (and do) get my news elsewhere. I don’t need to get it from fb.

I’m buying a car for both myself and my niece atm. Much cheaper than the options available on the paid car sale sites. I don’t use fb a lot but it does have it’s uses.

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Actually, on second thought, Facebook is kind of related to WoW.

Both things keep you hooked and constantly scrolling or logging on to look for fun, but usually you just feel bad and unfulfilled afterwards.

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i still follow various news organization’s pages on my FB feed, regardless of whether they are promoted by FB. the obviously too edgy ones got banned off FB anyways and i follow those through other sites.

no need to ever solely rely on a single media site

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Facebook is evil.

+1 reason to move to Australia.

I went for years, YEARS!, facebook free.

My son’s sports use this, his boy scout troop uses this…so years of success avoiding this crap were ruined to get updates and messages for this stuff.

WHy I sort of can’t wait for the emo teenage years…dad I don’t want to do this and no you cant friend me on facebook.

Son… I wasn’t going friend you as now I will never touch that FB crap ever again now that I need it for nothing lol.

Hell my account has everything made from name on down the line. I jsut needed it to see stupid activity groups. When I need to write a friend or family I do something weird. I…write them directly. Mind blowing stuff there I know.

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People aren’t getting this.

FB will not allow it. There is new legislation around FB having to pay our news outlets for content. So instead, fb just said “no aussie news on fb”. You can’t link it. They can’t do their own pages. None is allowed. It isn’t about what FB is promoting - it just isn’t allowed anymore.

I’m ok with this as I get my news elsewhere. It does mean however that I can’t have a story come up about how a woman bought the wrong sausages at woolworths and she’s upset and it’s woolworths fault. This is good.

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I’m not sure how I feel about that.

Probably good? Not allowing people to share news between each other seems a little slippery slopey though.

Idk I just need it for the kids stuff and for local updates. It would be nice for my purposes.

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Ah Facebook, the place where Family and Friends can argue about politics, share pictures of the kids with Grandma, post pictures of your fake life and people secretly try to cancel you because they disagree with your point of view. Such a lovely web world we live in :laughing:

Ah but isn’t every forum outlet like facebook now.

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facebook ?
lol haven’t used that for 4years now. haha waste of time it is.

Reevaluated, and I’m pretty happy with it.

Why, do you rate your own life by whatever inane social media sites you’re on?

My Facebook is used for local and gaming news and countless meme pages. If you find it to be a toxic environment you have only yourself to blame - you completely control what you see there.

lol huge “i don’t even own a television” energy

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