Liberal bill requiring Google and Meta to pay for news content passes in Senate

https://sh.itjust.works/post/345343

Liberal bill requiring Google and Meta to pay for news content passes in Senate - sh.itjust.works

What a joke that the heritage minister will "push back" on Google and Meta refusing to carry our news. What, we're now just going to force foreign companies to pay for our failing news industry?

So Reddit profiting from the work of mods and its users: Scandal

Meta and Google profiting from the work of journalists without paying any taxes in Canada: Totally normal

I don’t know where you get the idea they don’t pay taxes here. This argument that merely linking to content means you must pay the creator of that content is bullshit. If that is true we should just shut down the internet now.

They don't pay taxes in Canada

https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/canadian-taxes-dont-apply-to-companies-like-google-and-we-pay-with-jobs_ca_5cd51c2de4b07bc72974e01c/amp

Because they operate from the USA