Surrounded by scandals, Trudeau passed a law that had an oh-so-unintentional side-effect of hiding news from many people’s primary news source.
It’s hard to not be cynical about it.
I can't say I miss it; Facebook is actually usable now and shouldn't be anyone's primary news source.
The dude lurches from one sound bite to another with policy so shallow it barely looks at first order effects.
I'm sure the impact was fully unintentional. Very welcome after the fact. But still unintentional
Expecting Facebook or Google to pay publishers is like going back in time to 1970 and saying that a newsstand should be paying newspaper publishers for the privilege of selling their papers.
Google agreed to the terms. They're paying $100 million per year to the Canadian Journalism Collective.