• Quatity_Control@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Don’t look to Australia as the example. The laws resulted in just paying Murdoch news to stay in power and our news feeds have turned to shit.

    • nathris@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      That’s the goal here too. If Google and Meta have to pay to link to Canadian news content they are only going to do it for a few mainstream media sources like Post Media because handling the payments for all of the smaller independent sources would be an accounting nightmare.

      There is also a Microsoft subplot here. One of our senators was just on social media stating that Microsoft won’t have to pay because they fall short of the threshold. He encourages more people to switch to bing so that they will be forced to pay. The whole thing reads like a sponsored post.