Greedy google doing greedy google things.
F*ck these bozos who dont understand how much this is going to screw canadian news sites. They just see google gets owned and support whatever tf it is like sheep. Awful law
I am amazed at how people don’t understand that vague law that takes out there “Current enemy” could be used against them down the road… THERE IS NO SUPPORT OF GOOGLE or facebook… it is a bad law that could be turned around to start playing whack mole with lemmy instances in the future, especially those run by a Canadian entity or on canadian hosting.
I’m not sure what they expected. An EU country (I can’t remember if it was Spain or Italy) tried this and Google just left. Then the news outlets begged for the law to be repealed. Google has a monopoly on search. If people can’t find you there, you’re gonna have a bad time because of your traffic free fall.
The amount of people that don’t understand how important a news propagator like Google is is mind-blowing. Access to information is a right. This beats this right down to a pulp.
“HURR DURR GOOGLE BAD HUE HUE GOOD RIDDANCE HUE HUE I’M LE INTELLECTUAL”
Really sad. This fucked every news org. Hard. Except the big ones that own everything.
Why should Google have control over the propagation of news? Everyone can still go to the individual news organisations’ website…yes Google consolidated everything into one portal, but maybe it’s time to go back to something less centralised, which isn’t under the control of a single corporate entity, i.e. the way the web was originally intended to work.
Same reason you’re using Lemmy and don’t just go to browse every single individual website on the internet.
So then we need a non-corporate portal for news. Centralising the power of information distribution with massive companies that are driven solely by profit is not the way.
Yeah, I can’t wait to trust the feds that can’t even work out their stupid CRA website with being a source of reliable news aggregation. Just last year I SAW someone else’s tax reports on my account.
If you want to go on full /r/communism about Google, there’s a subreddit for that. But giving the finger to Canadians and internet freedom just because you hate Google is wack. City Nouvelles is not getting a dime from this bill.
Google doesn’t control the news as you tried to imply in another comment. That’s ridiculous. People that use Google made the choice to use Google for their news. Just like you chose Lemmy, some choose Meta, others choose Reddit, MSN, Yahoo, Bing, etc.
All this does is kill independent news sources and cutting choices from Canadians for the profit of the few rich corps in Canada. It’s a pure money grab.
Who said anything about the government stepping in to take over? I certainly didn’t say that. Something like Lemmy (and the Fediverse in general) isn’t government controlled, in fact it isn’t controlled by any one entity, which is one of its strengths. If you’re looking for a possible alternative to corporate or government control of media, you’re using one right now.
The problem is that Google has become a defacto default for most people. That didn’t happen just because people “decided” to start using it, the decision was made for them because Google has a great deal of money and power and can use that influence to essentially make the decision for people.
I’m convinced you’re trolling or genuinely really dumb.
I’m off, enjoy your monologue rants.
Strange reaction, no need for the personal attack. Enjoy your day.
They will eventually pay. This is similar to Australia.
The world wide web was meant to be more than a few tech bros with their tentacles on everything pulling it all towards a central point that is themselves. They’re fighting for their monopoly here more than anything else. It’s time for them to quit stifling innovation so the internet can evolve again.
At the same time, the news industry has to be more than just Postmedia, BCE, Torstar and Rogers.
The issue is their domination of the online advertising space, not that they “steal” content from the news sources. Yes, they do get headlines, but then they direct people back to that media site to read the content. The real issue is that the ads on the social media post direct revenue to Meta/Google. The ads on the news media site send revenue to Meta/Google. They control the ads market on the buy side (people wanting to advertise) and the sell side (people wanting to show ads), and the exchanges between the two.
The big tech companies paying the big media companies for links is not the solution. It’s a stupid idea and has failed everywhere it has been tried. The real solution is to break up the ads monopolies.
This a calculated move, but on the part of the Federal government, not google. It’s not about CanCon or newspapers and news sites/networks being paid for their linked content, it’s about slowly eliminating access to information that the federal government doesn’t control
