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Is this legit? Any canuckians in here?
First result: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-news-act-meta-facebook-1.6885634
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Womp womp
I'm Canadian and I can say the government has been active lately with a lot of media censorship bills so this wouldn't surprise me if true at all.
It's one of 4-5 censorship bills they have going and they're about to bring in a new one for "hate speech".
This one is called Bill C-18 aka the Online News Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_News_Act
Summoning u/YesMovement.
Yes it's legit. The law hasn't passed yet (EDIT the law has passed but the actual framework hasn't been completed yet) but Meta preemptively put blocks in to show what was going to be required by law.
The proposed law would require social media sites to pay MSM whenever anyone, including the MSM outlet istelf, posted a link to their stories on the claim that posting links is "theft".
So Meta said "we'll STOP THE STEAL and just ban anyone in Canada seeing news" and Justin cried some more.
Imagine getting bent out of shape because someone posts a link to YOUR OWN website. Congrats, MSM, you played yourself. No one is going to visit your rag websites anymore, you'll lose ad revenue, and fade into oblivion soon.
Justin: "Media failures are an argument for further government support!"
And the cycle of media dependence and sycophancy continues apace.
It's any news links not just certain blacklisted ones like in past censorship.
Social media has to give a cut of advertising revenue to the news site if they share the link or something like that.
It's kind of a no win, where just letting Google News get all the ad revenue from headline/summary readers is bad and so is not letting people share news. Basically the problem can't be solved in a decent way with section 230 in force (or Canadian equivalent).
It's not approved by the government, so canadians can't share it on the internet.
It's a law that Viva Frei railed against and is one of the major reasons he's not in Canada anymore.
It's because Canada passed a new bill that forces companies like Facebook to pay news outlets whenever their content is shared, so Facebook decided "fuck it" and banned all news for people in Canada.
Pretty funny actually, Canada literally just killed the MSMs reach on social media, on Facebook at least. And now, for the first time in forever, the lefty governments and the far-left tech giants are fighting each other. Very entertaining indeed.
Yeah, it was bill C-110, I think. Lots of really dumb laws and regulations like this, from someone whose been at it for far too long.
Canada and dumb laws, name a more iconic duo, lol
Trudeau and Freeland.
Badman and Robbing.
C-18 ackshully
No, this is actually another bribe of the MSM by Trudeau. This is only for Trudeau approved news (so Rebel wouldn't count, but Meta is blocking it and other real news to be safe).
Canadians can share news, but every time they do the platform they share it to (ie Facebook) is forced to pay the MSM outlet- even when CBC posts it themselves on their CBC Facebook page.
Oh Canada I think you're going insane