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Interesting that the bill's charter indeed says that. However, according to the Legislative Summary of Bill C-18 (https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsite/defaul
by belorn 3y ago
Interesting that the bill's charter indeed says that. However, according to the Legislative Summary of Bill C-18 (https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsite/default/en_CA/ResearchPublications/LegislativeSummaries/441C18E https://lop.parl.ca/sites/PublicWebsite/default/en_CA/Resear...), it says:
Clause 2(2) stipulates that news content is “made available” if two conditions are met:
that it, or any portion of it, is reproduced; and
that access to it is facilitated by “any means, including an index, aggregation or ranking of news content.”
The word link or hyperlink is not mentioned a single time.
- Marsymars 3y agoI'm not familiar with legalistic conventions around summaries vs bill text, but the "and" there looks to be directly at odds with the actual text of Clause 2(2) in the full text of the bill, which reads: (2) For the purposes of this Act, news content is made available if (a) the news content, or any portion of it, is reproduced; or (b) access to the news content, or any portion of it, is facilitated by any means, including an index, aggregation or ranking of news content. Given the "any means" wording, I don't think the absence of the word "link" or "hyperlink" should be taken to mean that links aren't covered by "any means".