> These advertising companies extract the excess wealth created by the labour of the news-reporting media without compensation. I can't tell if this is serious

> These advertising companies extract the excess wealth created by the labour of the news-reporting media without compensation. I can't tell if this is serious or sarcasm. If it is serious, can you explain how Facebook and Google are getting rich from including links to news web sites on their platforms? I haven't seen any evidence of this. On the contrary, platforms like Facebook drive a lot of traffic to news sites, which becomes ad revenue for the news publishers. > The people of Canada decided that this is unfair Is there some polling to support this assertion? People may want to "stick it to Big Tech" but most of the support for this policy has come from legacy media who think that it will bring in free money for them.