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Do media aggregators have a duty to provide links to public news sources in emergencies? (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The NWT government and city of Yellowknife are describing in tweets, Instagram messages etc. how to search key evacuation information on CPAC and CBC. The broadcast carriers have a duty to carry emergency information, but Meta and X are blocking links.

While internet access is reportedly limited in Yellowknife, residents are finding this a barrier to getting current and accurate information. Even links to CBC radio are blocked.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@StillPaisleyCat @ArbitraryValue
Looks like they're following the law pretty well here.
In return for being asked to pay for making links, they no longer make links.
Sure, Meta and Google can be nasty on other grounds (and fighting C-11 isn't nasty), but they're being quite law-abiding here.
Flouting the law would be sharing links and refusing to pay.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is coming across like sealioning at this point.

THE LAW HAS NOT YET COME INTO EFFECT.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

The law can come into effect whenever they want it to and the sites need to have their filtering systems ready and tested before that happens for them to be effective:

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/08/the-bill-c-18-regulation-fake-out-setting-the-record-straight-on-when-bill-c-18-takes-effect-and-the-regulation-making-process/