In all these cases, Facebook acted with a kind of supra-national authority, exercising its power with relative impunity. After the coup in Myanmar earlier this month, Facebook reduced the military’s access to Facebook-a move that came years too late for the country’s Rohingya Muslims, who had been targets of government propaganda on Facebook amid a larger campaign of genocidal violence. In October, it told the Turkish government that it wouldn’t follow a law requiring the company to appoint a local representative (Facebook later relented). This isn’t the first time, even in recent memory, that Facebook has defied a country’s laws or its leadership.
The country’s prime minister, Scott Morrison, said that his government “will not be intimidated.” Claiming it had little choice, Facebook said that “the proposed law fundamentally fails to understand how our services work.” The consequences have been widespread: Australian charities, health care workers, domestic violence helplines, emergency response services-along with newspapers and magazines- have found their Facebook pages rendered useless and their content unshareable. Though the country’s Parliament has yet to pass a proposed law that would require tech giants to pay for sharing others’ content, Facebook has already re taliat ed by cutting off Australian users’ ability to see or share news content it also instituted a global ban on sharing content from Australian publishers.
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