It's like, 0% metas fault (and it's not even that I'm not a fan... I viscerally hate them as a company. I do not have a Facebook account)

They're a company and they're obligated to maximize the return on investment of their shareholders. That's it. Full stop.

They crunched the numbers and the cost of compensating for the links outweighs the value of the links. They are obligated to make this decision.

Western governments are absolutely reaping what they've sown. Pathetic anti-trust enforcement and the evisceration of ACTUAL public services (who are instead of shareholders, are obligated to serve the public interest) have put us here.

In a healthy country, "Meta no longer posting news links" would be met with a "so what?". The fact that anyone gives a shit is evidence of a failure of the government to protect the social infrastructure of this nation.

And, it's not the just the liberals fault. They're just the ones still standing when the music stopped.