Canadian journalism is suffering – but Meta isn't budging

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I'm not sure I ever understood this decision. Stories posted on FB (for example) generated clicks - this is good, and if the numbers in this story can be believed, accounted for 90% of the traffic to the news site. When the news sites decided to disallow the free advertising they were getting from the readers of their sites, how did they not expect their clicks to plummet? Do they just want more money for the traffic than their intrusive and arrogant advertising was providing? Are they trying to setup a dual-income stream - pay us to allow our readers to post links to our site while we also make money from everyone who clicks links to our site?

I guess I'm curious about the thought process. What did the news sites expect to happen, honestly?

This disproportionately affects independent news organizations; "Big News" like CBC gets billions of dollars a year in funding from the federal government.

So, lobbying to pass this Bill C-18 allows CBC, etc. to entrench their total control over media in Canada, extinguishing all independent media.

The system is working as intended.

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