I live in Canada and I'm 100% on meta / Google's side.
If you mandate that to link to you I must pay you. Then you get to deal with people not linking to you. It's a bad law, and it's basically mugging tech companies to prop up big news orgs.
If you mandate that to link to you I must pay you. Then you get to deal with people not linking to you. It's a bad law, and it's basically mugging tech companies to prop up big news orgs.
This page does not make that reference at least: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/online-n...
> (d) requires the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (the “Commission”) to maintain a list of digital news intermediaries in respect of which the enactment applies;
CRTC is a government entity so the government reserves the power to decide who is on the list. I couldn't find the list online though.
“The act says digital companies must pay news organizations when someone gets to a web story through a link on one of their products.” - https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/c-18-your-questions-answered-1...
[0] or whatever the ratio is.
At the end of the day it’s not facebook’s responsibility to make sure the news are profitable, nor does it make sense to charge Facebook per link when it’s the users posting them.
The same with Google. All the sites need to do is adjust their robot.txt file and Google will leave them alone.
Meanwhile, I have no problem with Google and Facebook giving some of the money the create to the people who make the content that is consumed.
Social media is killing what’s left of their business model, but Craigslist and the like gutted it first.
If we as a society want news outlets to stay afloat because they provide a service we deem valuable, let’s skip all the way to the logical conclusion of funding them directly.
Which is, of course, ridiculous. Those news sites are almost certainly gaining visitors from those links, not losing them.
You can claim that news sites gain more than they lose. That's a different argument.