Helen CzerskiJul 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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@helenczerski this happened in Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-31/draft-mandatory-code-conduct-facebook-google-pay-for-news/12510776

Facebook, Google to be forced to pay for news as part of new mandatory code of conduct to support traditional news media

Facebook and Google will have to pay traditional news media to publish their content under a new code of conduct that could be in place by the end of the year.

ABC News
Jul 14, 2023 at 11:30pmWeb