No more News for Canada as Instagram blocks content for Canadian viewers due to C-18 link tax, others to follow

https://lemmy.world/post/1483806

No more News for Canada as Instagram blocks content for Canadian viewers due to C-18 link tax, others to follow - Lemmy.world

Good news for Lemmy lmfao
We might have to ban it too if Canada is going to charge the instance owners for every Canadian news story posted
Lemmy is not turning a profit, so it does not apply.
Do you have a source about what qualifies someone to have to pay? I can’t find much about it online.

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c18_1.html

The Bill introduces a new bargaining framework intended to support news businesses to secure fair compensation when their news content is made available by dominant digital news intermediaries and generates economic gain.

Bill C-18: An Act respecting online communications platforms that make news content available to persons in Canada

Department of Justice Canada's Internet site

*** and generates economic gain ***

I wonder if this would be our workaround, since lemmy isn’t like Facebook or reddit in that sense