[mullingitover]

It's telling that the response to pulling all content from news sites wasn't "This is a fair outcome since we're accusing Facebook of profiting from our content in a one-sided fashion."

It's pretty obvious that the news publishers are desperately dependent of facebook traffic, so this move was a breathtaking act of chutzpah on their part. Facebook wasn't harmed in the slightest by losing news publishers content, but they were facing doom. It was amusing that this was painted as censorship, as if somehow facebook took them off the internet entirely.

I'm not even a fan of Facebook, but they were in a fight with even worse people so it was with a lot of reservations that I was rooting for them in this fight. I would've preferred to see Facebook route around the major publishers entirely and just give grants and promotion directly to smaller independent news publishers.