Google will pull news links in Canada in response to new law
Google will pull news links in Canada in response to new law
Google is pulling news links from its search and news features in Canada after the passage of a new law..
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Greedy google doing greedy google things.
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Are you presuming that it never becomes popular? All three aspects vaguely describe the intermediary as being more popular than the news operator. If lemmy takes off and becomes the next Reddit and people go to it to catch up on the latest news it would be a factor.
Just because it does not fit today does not mean it isn't a bad law. It would essentially apply to ANY site that becomes popular and links to a canadian news outlet.
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"There’s a difference between popular and powerful though" Not legally no the terms in this bill are very poorly defined. Really any "popular" / "large" website that links to Canadian news could be targeted with the open wording of the bill.
F*ck these bozos who dont understand how much this is going to screw canadian news sites. They just see google gets owned and support whatever tf it is like sheep. Awful law
I am amazed at how people don't understand that vague law that takes out there "Current enemy" could be used against them down the road.. THERE IS NO SUPPORT OF GOOGLE or facebook.. it is a bad law that could be turned around to start playing whack mole with lemmy instances in the future, especially those run by a Canadian entity or on canadian hosting.
You're lying.
Care to elaborate?
Answered here: https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/485311
And the comment responding to it did a wonderful job of rebutting your point, so I won't repeat it.
It did no such thing. The commenter doesn't even seem to be aware that "Lemmy" isn't a place or organization.
Lemmy is 1000 independent websites, run by 1000 different independent individuals. And no single website running Lemmy will be in a position to wield influence over news media organizations.
It didn't actually. It is fascinating to find so many pro-authoritarian pro-billionaire tech fascist accounts on Lemmy.
Just because we want thoughtful regulation does not mean we support Meta and Alphabet. Why is this fascinating or surprising? Do you think the EFF is a huge fan of link taxes or Facebook?
They have had years to change and thoughtfully regulate themselves and refused. These fascist billionaire companies profit by sowing chaos in our democracy and pushing propaganda into our population without even paying taxes. To hell with Meta and Alphabet.
That's a whole lot of assumptions you're making about me there, all because I said there are problems with a law. I guess Lemmy isn't all that different from reddit after all.
What strategic advantage does Lemmy have? It's open source ffs