The former chief executive officer for Facebook Australia and New Zealand, Stephen Scheeler, said the social media giant has pulled out a big gun and fired on Australia by banning users from viewing and sharing news on the platform. The news ban, which has spilt over also to affect government and emergency services, is the social media giant’s retaliation to the Morrison government’s impending News Media Bargaining Code. “Clearly Facebook believes this issue in Australia is a big enough battle they have to win so in order to scare the horses we’ve seen a big gun come out and get fired,” he said. Scheeler thinks Facebook is “not being a good corporate citizen” and going beyond normal negotiations, which has affected services that give Australians very practical and essential information. “If this was a Chinese company not an American one doing the same thing we’d be up in arms saying it …