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Originally Posted by Monahammer
From the text of the act, bolding mine:
Treatment of news content
(3) This Act is to be interpreted and applied in a manner that is aimed at ensuring news content is made available by digital news intermediaries without undue manipulation or interference.
It was always about democracy. It's pretty dumb to think this amounted to a corporate shakedown. Have you heard of taxes before? If they wanted money they could just create a specific tax to achieve that instead of muddle about in censorship and everything that comes with it.
I've ended up greatly defending this bill and I don't even like it. But it's not what some are painting it to be, and I actually don't know how else we could begin to address this incipient problem in society.
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It's a terrible bill. Get over it.