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submitted 1 year ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/world@lemmy.world

Canadians no longer able to share or view news articles and other content by publishers and broadcasters, including international outlets. Online News Act requires tech giants to compensate Canadian news outlets for content shared on their platforms.

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[-] NormandyEssex@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

Facebook isn’t destroying journalism. All those news links have been shared and posted on Facebook, driving traffic to those news websites. Now the Canadian government passed a law that is hurting the traffic to those news websites.

[-] ahal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

The law is BS, no argument there. But Facebook and Google are absolutely destroying news. They're each operating a rigged market where they are both the broker and the seller. They eat into everyone's profits to make themselves fabulously rich. The only reason news outlets play the game is because not doing so would be even worse.

Imo the only solution is to regulate the ad markets that they're both running. Not this dumb link tax.

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