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“The agreement would see Canadian news continue to be shared on Google's platforms in return for the company making annual payments to news companies in the ran
by Corvus 3y ago
“The agreement would see Canadian news continue to be shared on Google's platforms in return for the company making annual payments to news companies in the range of $100 million, a source with knowledge of the negotiations told CBC News.”
- KingLancelot 3y agoCountries are now extorting American tech companies, that’s what’s really going on here.
- chongli 3y agoYeah it’s a shakedown. I don’t see them getting any money out of Facebook though. I actually think Facebook is a better experience for users without news.
- darrylb42 3y agoFacebook, all Meta properties no longer allow sharing anything considered news in Canada. If you put in a link to a news site it will be blocked. At one point they were event blocking news satire. People sharing news now will drop in an image instead of a link. Much less useful.
- chongli 3y agoI think news sharing on Facebook mainly leads to outrage spirals and toxic engagement. That’s why I say the platform is better off without it. I’m disappointed that people have been able to circumvent the block with screenshots though.
- pmontra 3y agoI'm not sure if this is what you meant but just in case, from the article: "Meta [...] ended its talks with the government last summer and stopped distributing Canadian news on Facebook and Instagram".
- bensecure 3y agoIf you're doing business in a country, naturally you need to deal with the regulatory environment of that country. Its surprising to see such explicit american chauvinism when discussing this issue.
- PoignardAzur 3y agoI'm as much against american hegemony as the next frenchman, and I still consider this wave of "we'll make google pay for the traffic they send our way" regulations to be bullshit. It's carriage drivers making the automobile industry pay them a fine for the crime of making them obsolete.
- polishdude20 3y agoI'm just disappointed that it seems the only way our government can make money is by pulling it from American companies.
- bensecure 3y ago> It's carriage drivers making the automobile industry pay them a fine for the crime of making them obsolete. That's utter nonsense. If google is sending traffic to a site, then naturally they consider that site valuable in some way. Nothing about google makes news "obsolete", and in fact google is basically just a website for finding news articles (and other content). The Canadian implementation of this law, unlike the Australian one for example, gives google the option of excluding these news sites from search results entirely if they consider them unnecessary. That google has chosen to negotiate a deal instead demonstrates that google recognizes the value these sites provide.
- PoignardAzur 3y agoFair, that's on me for reacting to the headline without reading the article, and "obsolete" is too strong a word. I was mostly thinking of the lobbying groups in europe which very much didn't want to allow the "exclude from search results" opt-out.
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- morbicer 3y agoWell it's a shitty way to operate but since these companies pay close to zero taxes I kinda support it