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Originally Posted by Firebot
As opposed to poor struggling small businesses like Bell or Rogers who own the media outlets that would be getting paid as part of this ruling and who lobbied Liberals and pushed for C-18 and C-11 in the first place? All while making job cuts to maximize shareholder profits?
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pm...-blocking-news
The issue with C-11 and C-18 is that both have direct obvious corporate beneficiaries, to the detriment of Canadians (in the case of C-18 easy accessible news and information).
C-18 does absolutely nothing to benefit Canadians, and it's foolhardy to think that Google / Meta should just pony up some cash when they can simply and freely choose not to link (again to the detriment of Canadians).
It could be certainly argued that sharing the full article should be fairly and rightfully compensated, but this is not what C-18 does. |
Bell and Rogers would benefit - more Bell since CTVnews website has some popularity but in terms of % of revenue, would be shocked if it doesn't help Postmedia, Globe and Mail, Torstar and smaller digital outlets more by orders of magnitude.