No more News for Canada as Instagram blocks content for Canadian viewers due to C-18 link tax, others to follow
No more News for Canada as Instagram blocks content for Canadian viewers due to C-18 link tax, others to follow
The companies are protesting Canada’s new "link tax" law by pulling news links off their platforms.
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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
I don’t think that’s how it works; I thought that it was news aggregators run by the site itself; so like, “Google News” or an official account on an app posting.
Anyway this isn’t going to end well for Canada. This is like owing a newspaper money because you showed someone the way to the newsstand.
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.
"and generates economic gain"
I wonder if this part would be our workaround, since lemmy isn't like Facebook or reddit in that sense
The instance owner shouldn't be subject to Canadian law if they are not living in or doing business in Canada. Canada would have to block the instances.
That's true, only Canadian instances would have to block Canadian news sites
RIP /c/news federated to lemmy.ca :(
But would it be for economic gain?
Who's we? I run my own federated instance.