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submitted 1 year ago by boris@news.cosocial.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

TechDirt’s Mike Masnick gets it exactly right in covering Canada’s C-18 bill:

If you believe in the open web, if you believe that you should never have to pay to link to something, if you believe that no one should have to pay to provide you a benefit, then you should support Meta’s stance here. Yes, it’s self-serving for Meta. Of course it is. But, even if it’s by accident, or a side-effect, it’s helping to defend the open web, against a ridiculous attack from an astoundingly ignorant and foolish set of Canadian politicians.

And just generally points out the huge holes in Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez understanding from the Power & Politics Interview.

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[-] Thief@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago

I actually agree with this law stopping Facebook or Google basically showing the entire article so you never leave facebooks site and facebook makes all the revenue while offloading the costs to serve and create the content to the news organisation. Seems ridiculous and parasitic. I agree just a link is overreach but something had to be done and maybe it can just be scaled back a bit. Making someone else incur the cost to create something you then sell and they have no way to stop you is just morally wrong.

[-] boris@news.cosocial.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Sure. Then it should also apply to independent media. Which the Canadian bill does not. The Canadian government is picking and chooseing who news media is.

[-] Thief@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I would be happy for the law to be modified and improved. The first draft isnt always the best. Just a step forward thats all.

[-] PowerSeries@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

This is past the third reading though, it's far from a first draft .

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