“Crossing the Iron Curtain: Meta’s AI Attorney Explains His Decision to Dismiss the Firm Amidst Neo-Nazi Mayhem”

“‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company”

“In recent years, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has received a steady drumbeat of cease-and-desist letters from lawmakers and regulators around the globe, objecting to various uses of local journalists’ work on its platform. Now, there’s a growing chorus of officials who want to see companies like Meta face financial penalties when they use journalists’ work without permission.”

In the realm of the tech world, the popular kid on the playground, Meta, formerly known as Facebook, is yet again in the crosshairs of international lawmakers and regulators. Who would’ve thought? It seems not everyone appreciates the ‘free sharing of information’ on its platforms. Particularly not when it’s hard-earned journalistic work being paraded around without due credit or remuneration.

With a thickening file of cease-and-desist letters piling up, it’s clear Meta is not having a joyride. However, regulators aren’t satisfied with mere warnings and citation letters. The word on the street is that lawmakers are keen on seeing Meta take a hearty bite out of the humble pie — served in a dish rightly named financial penalties. Ah, dish best served cold indeed.

Once upon a time, invoking copyright infringements might have seemed like a mere annoyance for big tech companies — a bothersome fly in the opulent chateau of online platforms. Not a single nod of deterrence in sight. Yet, it seems that the winds of change are blowing, and this could spell series of sleepless nights for the bigwigs at Meta.

Perhaps, the message is becoming clearer – Playing fast and loose with other people’s intellectual property is not the best modus operandi. Who knew? It seems like regulators and lawmakers have finally taken up the baton to uphold copyright rules, and put an end to the globetrotting banditry of big tech companies’ behavior.

Through this developing narrative, it might be safe to say that the era of free — and often unauthorized — joyrides using journalists’ work could be nearing an end. And Meta being the poster child of this paradigm shift? Pure irony.

Let’s keep the popcorn coming, folks! This is a tech drama well worth watching as it unfolds.

Read the original article here: https://www.wired.com/story/lawmaker-meta-copyright-cases/