I’m not surprised of their reaction to the new law C-18, but I’m pretty worried of its impact on the information reaching citizens and democracy.
More proof Google and META are anti-democratic
More like more proof the Canadian government isn’t living in reality
Huh? People bellyache that the government does nothing to hold these greedy democracy busting tech-bro individuals/companies to account, and then they also bellyache when they DO hold them to account. What’s up with that? 😆
It’s going to be pretty significant. I’m sure the vacuum will be filled by American and international news, but that’s terrible for democracy.
What ethical search engine would you recommend instead? Is DuckDuckGo still the way to go?
A vote for DuckDuckGo + Firefox here and DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials/Adblock Plus
AdBlock plus hasn’t been very good for a long time. uBlock Origin is so much better.
I’ll have a look. Thank you 🖖🏻
Personally switching to Kagi. It’s paid, but it lets me block or boost certain domains in my personal search results.
Its very similar to the law passed in australia, and facebook and google ended up caving. So it ended up working, mostly
I think the law here is trying to get the same result. However I agree with you OP, Im not sure how successful it will be, especially if the result is more vulnerable canadians being directed toward unreliable and dangerous stuff…
I think there might have been better ways to boost trustworthy Canadian news
