Facebook Australian news shutdown (extended version)

I loathe Facebook. I fail to see them as the bad guy in this.<p>The Australian government made a policy to prop up a specific powerful media organization with wealthy donors who have falling readers and revenue.<p>Facebook likely took the easiest way out to remain legal and abide by Australian law.<p>Any distress with content not showing should be put towards the AU government after all it&#x27;s a consequence and collateral damage of their policy.<p>I imagine over the coming weeks certain things will get restored as algorithms etc get tweaked for the edgecases.

...&quot;Facebook didn’t just shut down Australian news sites, it shut down government agency pages: Hospitals, Fire &amp; Rescue, Bureau of Meteorology, just hours after Zuckerberg spoke to our Govt &amp; without warning. If a foreign government did this(e.g China), it would be called terrorism.&quot;