I tried to post several links to news on this topic to Facebook just now. Would not let me. Now all posts except ads are blank now. I guess that’s my “punishment”. Fuck you Facebook!
If they have news content, regardless of where the organization is based, they are a “digital news intermediary”. As a digital news intermediary they are thus subject to the law and may be made to pay Canadian news organizations. Note that the law doesn’t make them pay for foreign news, but the presence of foreign news is enough to allow the CRTC to make them pay for Canadian news.
I tried to post several links to news on this topic to Facebook just now. Would not let me. Now all posts except ads are blank now. I guess that’s my “punishment”. Fuck you Facebook!
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I tried posting a link from NPR also
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FYI for Facebook to be exempt from C-18 they had to ban all news and not just Canadian news.
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If they have news content, regardless of where the organization is based, they are a “digital news intermediary”. As a digital news intermediary they are thus subject to the law and may be made to pay Canadian news organizations. Note that the law doesn’t make them pay for foreign news, but the presence of foreign news is enough to allow the CRTC to make them pay for Canadian news.
Michael Geist explains it here: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/08/why-is-meta-blocking-all-news-links-because-bill-c-18-covers-all-news-outlets/
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Yes but they also have to block foreign news too, not just Canadian news.
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