Salvaging Bill C-18: Government Upends Legislation To Bring Google Onside the Online News Act (www.michaelgeist.ca)

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The government has announced that it has reached agreement with Google on deal that will ensure that news links are not blocked on the search engine and that the company pays $100 million to support the news sector in Canada.

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[-] grte@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This comes across as sour grapes from the guy who wrote this. The compromise came Michael, and you were fear mongering this whole time.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

He doesn't sound too happy to concede being on the wrong side of this. I bought the absolutists libertarian approach towards net neutrality and the web 15 years ago. We've learned a few things since then.

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