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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by avidamoeba@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

We appear to be standing our ground!

Not my preferred choice of source but NatPo has more detail than some of the alternatives I saw. It includes some numbers as well as comments about the difference between Meta's and Google's approaches. Hint: they're not the same, so there's already cracks in the effort to make an example out of Canada.

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[-] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Might have to check that out.

Keep in mind my main opinion is that the LAW is written so broad and bad that it would essentially penalize any competitor to google or Facebook as a linking source.

The internet is literally based on linking, way back Netscape Navigator was THE BROWSER, and included a homepage with links to news and sites, then there was Yahoo, another mostly LIST based site.

Facebook doesn't really go out and link news, users share news they discover with others, IE word of mouth.

Any manipulation of rank I see as a separate issue, however this bill seems to convolute the two of them. Might be better as a separate bill about search bias, one about content summarization and lets drop the whole pay per link thing.

Like many bills that have GOOD parts we have to look at the whole and many bills and laws are just turd sandwiches..

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