Looks like government blinked, a few days after Trudeau compared defending C-18 to fighting Nazis in WWII. What a monumentally stupid bill, biting the hand that feeds you.
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/07/...line-news-act/
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Fourth, this quagmire is entirely the government’s own making. There were alternative options proposed that look much like this structure. Those were consistently rejected and those proposing the alternatives dismissed as shills. Yet faced with emerging disaster that is Bill C-18, the government seems prepared to ditch the principles it said were critical in its news bill in the hope of a face-saving compromise. Whether it is also willing to drop the visions of hundreds of millions for the sector will likely determine whether it can convince at least one of the platforms to drop their plans to block news links or news sharing in Canada.
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