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A Canadian bill that will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms is set to become law

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Won't this just lead them to drop Canadian media from their platforms?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Meta has already removed any news link (might not be 100% active but the press release went out). The government was told this it seems, they thought FB and Google were bluffing -- even though there are many examples in Europe of this happening.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

“Bluffing” is an irrelevant framing if you believe — as I do — that news publishers should be paid for their content.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

But the way these laws are written, it isn't under the social media company's control. The laws are saying that if any user posts a link to a news article the company owes the publisher money. So the social media company will just ban links that are going to cost them money.

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