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This law will require Meta to pay news companies "for posting their journalism on their platforms". What is the intent behind the law? > "If the government can

This law will require Meta to pay news companies "for posting their journalism on their platforms". What is the intent behind the law? > "If the government can't stand up for Canadians against tech giants, who will?" said Rodriguez. How is this "stand[ing] up for Canadians"? More like standing up for news corps. The framing of the response from Meta by Trudeau as "bullying tactics" is a bit irritating. I'd expect Meta's experiments with blocking news to be checking whether the new costs mean it's still worth for them to post news or now. I still don't really understand what the purpose of this law is.

incompatible 3y ago
It's just something happens occasionally. A (neoliberal) government decides that we need X (freely available news, or something, in this case) but the free market won't provide it because is isn't profitable (news companies losing ad revenue and going bust or switching to click-bait), so they'll create a new law (not unlike copyright) as some kind of work-around to cram everything into the desired "free-market" system.
BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
>How is this "stand[ing] up for Canadians"? it's standing up for Canadian news companies. this is one way this is another more dubious way this is good for people: I think this may even improve facebook as a website: no more "news" which are just some sort "advertisement" or propaganda that looks like "news". maybe another way to understand this move is to consider it as a way to force facebook to pay to publish a certain sort of what is essentially "government advertisement". this means it's a tax from Canada to Meta's Facebook