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Helen Czerski Jul 14, 2023

OUCH. Canada has enacted laws to require big tech companies that generate ad revenue while sharing links to stories from Canadian news outlets to compensate those publications, and the response of Google and Meta is… to start removing all Canadian news links from their pages.

That means Canadian news just won’t appear in Google searches. It spells disaster for Canadian journalism, all because they asked to share the profits from their work. https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-block-news-links-canada-over-law-paying-publishers-statement-2023-06-29/ #Canada #news #Google

Google to block news in Canada over law on paying publishers

Google said on Thursday it plans to block Canadian news on its platform in Canada, joining Facebook in escalating a campaign against a new law requiring payments to local news publishers.

Reuters

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PeaceNick🇨🇦Jul 14, 2023

@helenczerski

There is precedent. Although a relatively small market, not being bullied and fair compensation is appropriate stance from a government. This Australian version was trying to balance the division of ad revenue for journalist.

https://www.wired.com/story/australia-media-code-facebook-google/

Australia's Standoff Against Google and Facebook Worked—Sort Of

A year after Australia forced tech giants to pay news outlets for the content they display, other countries want to follow suit.

WIRED

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PeaceNick🇨🇦

@helenczerski

Also, intriguingly, so much of our media in 🇨🇦 is owned by Postmedia which in turn has foreign / US hedge funds as their owners. So this is a battle being fought for Canadian journalism between US Tech and US Finance.