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hings, etc. So over time it probably does crawl closer to the truth than whatever else we were using. So that's good. I don't recommend getting rid of science. But for new stuff, yeah, new stuff like the straws, that's kind of new. Coin flip. All right. Apparently Canadians aren't allowed to have news. I don't know. Do you even care about the details? Yeah, the summary is Canadians are not allowe…

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by the way, but I'll just tell you what the community note says. The fact that this is real, I'm going to read this. I'm just saying it's from the community notes. I feel like it couldn't be real, but it might be. I'll read it to you. You decide.

Community notes: The Canadian government has not forbidden posting news articles but did start requiring social media companies to share revenue when they link to news sites. In response, Facebook made a business decision not to allow display or posting of such links by Canadian users.

Really? Seriously? Seriously that Canada was so dumb that they thought that Facebook would just start sharing the revenue with the news people that people linked to? That wasn't going to happen. Of course that wasn't going to happen. That would be the stupidest thing ever. You can make fun of Zuckerberg all day long for his preferences politically, etc. Yeah, you can make fun of him for looking like an Android. But he's not an idiot. He's not stupid. He knows what a business model looks like. Of course he's not going to do business with Canada under those conditions, at least not the way they want it. Of course not. There's no head of a social media company that would have ever agreed to that.

So imagine this. You're a Canadian using social media, and on Facebook you're not allowed to see news from your own country. You can see news from other countries, but you're not allowed to see your own news. Now

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keep in mind that the links were links to drive traffic to the news site. Now that would be advertising, we call it in this country, or marketing. It's advertising or marketing when people from somewhere else are encouraged to go to your product. But now that's not going to happen. It's not illegal, but Canada decided to make it non-economic to look at the news that actually happened in the real…

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