CBC Says Canada Is “Canary In The Coal Mine” As The Pubcaster Predicts Meta & Alphabet Will Block News Content In Other Countries

https://startrek.website/post/1942612

Does anybody know what these bills say about distributed / open platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon? (obviously paying per link is not viable here)
Could you imagine if you or your grandmother had to pay a dollar to post a link to a Canadian article on a social media site.
This is disingenuous and irrelevant - that’s no what’s being proposed at all. And if you’ve ever run Facebook ads, you’d know what a ridiculous amount of money Facebook gets from that.