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> The bill threw smaller orgs under the bus in favour of larger ones like Torstar and Postmedia The bill was trying to protect what little media outlets Canada
by pupppet 3y ago
> The bill threw smaller orgs under the bus in favour of larger ones like Torstar and Postmedia
The bill was trying to protect what little media outlets Canada has left, few people were clicking through when the gist of the article was on Google.
You can’t argue that Canadian media orgs don’t require government protection when they’re all completely reliant on a single American company to provide them the right exposure.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoI thought they had a problem with Canadians sharing news articles on Facebook, not searching for them on Google. Or maybe both?
- graeme 3y agoThis isn’t correct. News media can, if they want, completely restrict google/meta previews or even disable google. Meta/google are huge revenue drivers for media. But through a complex narrative the media has pretended that google and meta take their money, and so they got the govt to blackmail google/meta. It didn’t work with meta. The blocked news (one of the options the law allowed). The media squawked because this hurt them, while meta is doing fine. Ultimately now CBC can’t share on meta, and lost any deals it had with google/meta. They’ll get a portion of Google’s $100 million and that’s it.