I am so tired of the competition bureau, they are so fucking useless. Can’t they investigate the literal cartels we have that are sucking all of our money with outrageous prices? Like the same cartels that everyone has to use because they are essential in 2023? Groceries and telecoms?
Meta leaving Canada entirely would be a win in my books as we see the influence of weaponized stupidity crossing the border.
“Meta’s practices are clearly designed to discipline Canadian news companies, prevent them from participating in and accessing the advertising market, and significantly reduce their visibility to Canadians on social media channels,” the CBC said in a joint statement with the Canadian Association of Broadcasters and News Media Canada, a trade organization that represents newspapers.
Isn’t the argument for C-18 that the advertising market isn’t doing the news organizations much good anyway?
And as far as their visibility on social media channels, the news organization created this problem for themselves in the first place by encouraging people to share their work on social media; if they’d focused on making sure people know where to find them instead of posting all their work maybe their sites would be getting more traffic. They tried a business strategy, it didn’t work out, and now instead of coming up with a better strategy they’re trying to force Meta and Google to give them money and make the bad strategy work.
Canadians expect tech giants to follow the law in our country.
The law says Meta and Google have to pay to carry news; it doesn’t say they have to carry news. Maybe the law should have been written without that gaping hole?
Canadian news companies: Lobbies government to mandate royalties for news being shared on social media platforms.
Social media platforms: Stops sharing the news created by Canadian news companies.
Canadian news companies:
Isn’t the argument for C-18 that the advertising market isn’t doing the news organizations much good anyway?
The officially stated reason for Bill C-18 is to give news organizations in Canada balanced negotiating power with entities like Facebook.
Which, I guess, was successful. Facebook pushed away from the bargaining table as it no longer feels like it holds dominance over it.
But now the news companies are saying that’s not good enough. They want more power than Facebook has.
I think it’s worth noting that news organizations are struggling not because less people are reading news but rather because advertising is so cheap now. When newspapers were the only advertising source they could charge high prices. Then TV came out which hurt them, but this was balanced by TV spending some money on journalism. Now with the internet the prices newspapers can charge for advertising is sooo much less than they could previously.
Anyway, I think it’s worth noting this because there’s this narrative that news organizations helped build up social media (and maybe deserve a cut). I mean really, how many people decided to make an Instagram account or Facebook account because CBC happened to have a page they could follow? Of the people I know who use Facebook or Instagram, none use it for news. This also means that utilizing social media to drive traffic may still be a good strategy - if the government hadn’t effectively blocked that.
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How can CBC squander a taxpayer bailout? Aren’t they inherently taxpayer funded anyway?
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Man, I hate Meta with a passion, but it’s hilarious watching the slow motion train wreck this amateur-hour legislation has become.
Lol not a fan of Facebook or Meta but forcing any entity to provide a service they don’t want to provide especially if it’s not being done in a discriminatory way seems dubious. Legacy media are reaping what hath been sown.
The news existed before facebook and will continue to exist after facebook. Just go to the news sites and read your news. I quit both facebook and twitter over 6 years ago but I have never quit reading the news… facebook and twitter are not the news… Also their support of nazis and fascists should preclude them from even being allowed in Canada.
I dont want news on facebook. I signed up for facebook to keep up with friends, not corporations.
Isn’t this a little bit like a shit flavoured candy maker, suing Walmart to force them to sell their shit flavoured candy? What grounds do they have to force Facebook to have anything to do with them?
Not really a good analogy because Walmart mostly purchases goods to resell them1, while Facebook does not purchase news. Even so, if Walmart suddenly stopped selling Canadian goods it could lead to a lawsuit too. CBC is not trying to force Facebook to accept CBC links, it’s about all Canadian outlets.
1 well, except on their 3rd party marketplace, but we all know this is not what the analogy is talking about
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There is a word for forcing someone to work for you for free.
