Play Nice Random Chat Thread V

[giantroo]

 

[goalieboy82]

Coach Sissy from earlier:

 

[giantroo]

All gone.

 

[giantroo]

Facebook restricts Australians' access to news

Australians are being blocked from accessing news in their Facebook feeds, in a dramatic escalation of the social media giant's stand-off with the federal government.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Val Keating]

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Big tech wielding the stick. So, FB has chucked a fit over a crap bunch of laws (they really are) and bans info about COVID, police and emergency warnings in the process.

 

[Val Keating]

Twitter is about to be inundated with Facebookers

 

[Swallow_Wood]

Big tech wielding the stick.

**** em.

 

[giantroo]

Mohamed Moustafa - Lawyer

Mohamed Moustafa - Lawyer. 76,327 likes. ‎استشارات قانونية

australia.fb.com

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

Mohamed Moustafa - Lawyer

Mohamed Moustafa - Lawyer. 76,327 likes. ‎استشارات قانونية

australia.fb.com

Vic police page is barren now.

 

[DesertRoo]

 

[7577969923]

Apparently, you can't get a hotel room within 100km!
Cocaine packets wash up on beach at Hinchinbrook Island, north Queensland


Queensland police found packages of cocaine on a beach.
Police are warning that packages of cocaine may wash up on the north Queensland coast after 10kg of the drug was discovered on Hinchinbrook Island.
Members of the public contacted police after finding 10 packages of white powder washed up on the beach at Ramsay Bay, each weighing 1kg and suspected to be cocaine.
Major and Organised Crime Squad investigators and are searching the area for more packages and other evidence as part of investigations into the haul

The drugs were discovered just days after fisherman Andrew Heard, 69, was killed in a suspected crocodile attack on the same island, 8km off the coast at Cardwell, between Cairns and Townsville.
Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Graham Camp, the acting officer in charge of the squad, warned the packages could be a health risk if handled.
Andrew Heard was killed in a suspected croc attack.
“Anyone who was at sea or on the coastline near these locations and saw anything suspicious in the water or other suspicious activity is urged to contact police,” Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Camp said.
“It is possible further packages may wash up along the coast due to tidal flows and ocean currents.
“We urge the public to contact police should they find further packages and to not open them as the substance could be hazardous.”
Anyone who has located related items or who has seen suspicious activity has been urged to report it to police.
Hinchinbrook Island is home to the world-renowned Thorsborne Trail, a 32km walking track where only 40 people are allowed at any one time.

Police search waters off Hinchinbrook Island last week for Andy Heard.
Queensland police said they were waiting on the results of forensic examination of the powder and were working with law enforcement agency partners in an ongoing investigation.
Mr Heard went missing last Thursday after heading towards Gayundah Creek on Hinchinbrook Island’s northwest in a 2.5m dinghy.
His wife raised the alarm when he failed to return to their yacht and she could not reach him by two-way radio, and his boat was found overturned and damaged.
Department of Environment and Science wildlife officers shot and killed a 4.2m crocodile on Saturday, finding human remains in its stomach.
A second crocodile was captured and killed this week.
Police said that apart from the locations there was no connection between the events.

 

[giantroo]

#boycottfacebook campaign has started.

 

[DesertRoo]

Apparently, you can't get a hotel room within 100km!
Cocaine packets wash up on beach at Hinchinbrook Island, north Queensland


Queensland police found packages of cocaine on a beach.
Police are warning that packages of cocaine may wash up on the north Queensland coast after 10kg of the drug was discovered on Hinchinbrook Island.
Members of the public contacted police after finding 10 packages of white powder washed up on the beach at Ramsay Bay, each weighing 1kg and suspected to be cocaine.
Major and Organised Crime Squad investigators and are searching the area for more packages and other evidence as part of investigations into the haul

The drugs were discovered just days after fisherman Andrew Heard, 69, was killed in a suspected crocodile attack on the same island, 8km off the coast at Cardwell, between Cairns and Townsville.
Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Graham Camp, the acting officer in charge of the squad, warned the packages could be a health risk if handled.
Andrew Heard was killed in a suspected croc attack.
“Anyone who was at sea or on the coastline near these locations and saw anything suspicious in the water or other suspicious activity is urged to contact police,” Detective Acting Senior Sergeant Camp said.
“It is possible further packages may wash up along the coast due to tidal flows and ocean currents.
“We urge the public to contact police should they find further packages and to not open them as the substance could be hazardous.”
Anyone who has located related items or who has seen suspicious activity has been urged to report it to police.
Hinchinbrook Island is home to the world-renowned Thorsborne Trail, a 32km walking track where only 40 people are allowed at any one time.

Police search waters off Hinchinbrook Island last week for Andy Heard.
Queensland police said they were waiting on the results of forensic examination of the powder and were working with law enforcement agency partners in an ongoing investigation.
Mr Heard went missing last Thursday after heading towards Gayundah Creek on Hinchinbrook Island’s northwest in a 2.5m dinghy.
His wife raised the alarm when he failed to return to their yacht and she could not reach him by two-way radio, and his boat was found overturned and damaged.
Department of Environment and Science wildlife officers shot and killed a 4.2m crocodile on Saturday, finding human remains in its stomach.
A second crocodile was captured and killed this week.
Police said that apart from the locations there was no connection between the events.

The cops are saying they’re a health risk if handled.. I believe that’s a risk I’m willing to take..

 

[DesertRoo]

#boycottfacebook campaign has started.

FB is toxic, we’d be a better country without it..

 

[goalieboy82]

The cops are saying they’re a health risk if handled.. I believe that’s a risk I’m willing to take..

and Tilly Too.

 

[Kangaroos4eva]

FB is toxic, we’d be a better country without it..

Twitter too. It is a seedy crack den that has been horrible for mental health.

 

[Flawed Genius]

Facebook has managed to block the official Facebook page on Facebook

Sick algorithm

 

[Tas]

Big tech wielding the stick. So, FB has chucked a fit over a crap bunch of laws (they really are) and bans info about COVID, police and emergency warnings in the process.

I do not think the law is bad, it shouldn't have been needed. You shouldn't profit off of someone else's content without some form of agreement/compensation. I think if you sell advertising to access someone else's content then you should have an agreement to pay for that content or share some of the revenue you generate from people accessing it.

These laws are arising because companies like Facebook and Google, who now represent 81% of Australia's digital advertising revenue, have profited from Australian content creators and have refused to compensate. Had they been more reasonable, the law wouldn't have been required.

 

[giantroo]

 

[DesertRoo]

Facebook has managed to block the official Facebook page on Facebook

Sick algorithm

Guess it goes to show how integral news is to their platform..

 

[DrZaius]

I do not think the law is bad, it shouldn't have been needed. You shouldn't profit off of someone else's content without some form of agreement/compensation. I think if you sell advertising to access someone else's content then you should have an agreement to pay for that content or share some of the revenue you generate from people accessing it.

These laws are arising because companies like Facebook and Google, who now represent 81% of Australia's digital advertising revenue, have profited from Australian content creators and have refused to compensate. Had they been more reasonable, the law wouldn't have been required.

Lol the problem is this was not a pragmatic law by the government to help out struggling news outlets. It is PURELY intended to funnel more people to Murdoch's dying newspapers.

 

[DrZaius]

Now that we need to go straight to the source for our news, what do you think the most likely outcome will be for the average boomer who only reads news for the headlines?

a) scouring google/yahoo/askjeeves/duckduckgo to find a balanced and unbiased news source
b) going straight to the first few results which will be 90% Murdoch garbage

Facebook can GAGF too, but they really didn't have much of an alternative.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Yes, the censoring of organisations that shape user interactions via their own standards of censorship amuses me greatly.

Anything that destroys twitter & facebook can only be a good thing.

 

[Snake_Baker]

.........on second thought, facebook may have some merit.