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2y ago

Trudeau says other countries are quietly backing Canada in fight over Online News Act

www.cbc.ca /news/politics/trudeau-online-news-act-other-countries-backing-canada-1.6970582

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It would be nice if they weren't so quiet. The fact that they are tells you a lot about the kind of power FB et al have.
- Yea this would be a lot more effective if other countries participated. What are they going to do, block everyone from Facebook news?
  
  This is exactly what they did in Australia for about a week, then they backed down when the government wouldn't.
  
  I've read that Facebook has actually been trying to reduce their reliance on news in all their products, so the answer is actually a possible "yes", they would do a global news block.
  
  That would require them to care.
  How do you know someone doesn't care? You watch them and if they say they care, but then do nothing, you know they don't care.
- That would require believing it, not just trying to offer words of encouragement to cheer up a man who has been down on his luck.

This is the best summary I could come up with:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says other countries are quietly taking Canada's side as giant tech companies push back against his government's Online News Act.
C-18, which passed the House of Commons in June, requires that tech giants Google and Meta pay media outlets for news content they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms.
"Countries around the world are actually — and I heard this again when I was overseas — people saying, 'Stand strong because this really matters,'" he told host Jayme Poisson.
Earlier this month, the government released draft regulations for C-18 and estimated that Google and Meta would have to pay a combined $234 million to media outlets in order to comply.
The government said companies fall under the act if they have a total global revenue of $1 billion or more in a calendar year, "operate in a search engine or social media market distributing and providing access to news content in Canada," and have 20 million or more average monthly unique Canadian visitors or average monthly active users.
A Google spokesperson told CBC News it is still reviewing the draft regulations but the company has significant concerns.
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I'm truly shocked, nobody could have seen this coming. /s

JT: other countries are backing Canada Reality: they are not
- JT: other countries are backing Canada
  Conservative Alternate Reality: they are not
  There. You were close.
  Or you were omniscient. Which was it?
  
  Backing is done through action, not words. No action has been seen. No backing has occurred.

No one is supporting us because C-18 is an ignorant money grab backed by corrupt politicians.

Oh, bullshit, Justin. Just stop.

"The lurkers support me in email…"
How fucking embarrassing for a head of government.

"Everybody's telling me.."
Also, what fucking fight? While I hate Facebook, you gov. morons made a dumb law & Facebook complied with it.

That guy is full of shit.
- Forgot you were psychic.

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