when we spoke to radio host kerry harrison about this new told us the in his opinion the new law is fullyjustified. it's very simple it's as if in the old days you publish a newspaper and then somebody came and stole your newspaper put it in their own stand and then added their own ads to it and made a profit and didn't give you anything back for it well there would be a problem there have been always for many many years and lawsuits because of it so clearly it's that time now when facebook has done enough stealing the already steal our data it's worth billions of dollars where i went who i talk to who my friends are who my friends are not what do i eat all of that and i get nothing 0 for them to sell and resell and resell that data in the united states right now corporations are much more powerful than government facebook wants to own everything its goals are to own everything does facebook want to do york times to be the newspaper of record no facebook wants facebook to be there's no editor in chief of the internet hello you could publish a blog and boy if you make it look good it looks

issue saying these accounts had been inadvertently impacted and would be restored radio host kerry harrison professor of liberal studies michael rex involved and political commentator lauren sharon gave us their take on the story. although i don't like facebook by any means i also don't blame them for trying to put a stop to what i think is a very bad policy that in the end well only end up hurting smaller independent and perhaps even dissident sources in favor of a larger more establishment media sources these news organizations are disappearing that's really what's at stake and they really don't have any choice because they're not generating the kind of revenues necessary to run these news that 6 content of which facebook reliance on we have seen a whole cloth disruption of paid you know professional journalists guys that spent 30 years cutting their teeth and there are a lot of jobs because who's going to pay him $80.00 grand plus benefits to write a story when you can get to me on his you know no unfair if i know real credentials in journalism typing out something and make more money on

without let's get some expert opinion on all of it and bring in syndicated radio host of harrison's reality check kerry whoreson political commentator host of the pseudo intellectual podcast lauren chen author and former fester of liberal studies at n.y.u. michael rect and while you're all very welcome lauren can we kick off with you today facebook's move a pretty dramatic escalation of us the speed with the government wasn't it but essentially does it not boil down to the fact it's a private company their site their rules. you're right it absolutely is a private company and for the record i do not support the australian government's policy in this regard at all however if there is one thing that should all show us is the amount of control that facebook currently has who are our public discourse and actually i know some people were furious and that it wasn't just news agencies that are originally blocked by facebook but there was actually a time when some government sites or government resources were blocked as well facebook may be a private company but we cannot deny that in 2020 or 2021 rather it is