• terath@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    1 year ago

    What a joke that the heritage minister will “push back” on Google and Meta refusing to carry our news. What, we’re now just going to force foreign companies to pay for our failing news industry?

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      1 year ago

      So Reddit profiting from the work of mods and its users: Scandal

      Meta and Google profiting from the work of journalists without paying any taxes in Canada: Totally normal

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        1 year ago

        I don’t know where you get the idea they don’t pay taxes here. When they operate here they pay taxes here.

        However, this argument that merely linking to content means you must pay the creator of that content is bullshit. If that is true we should just shut down the internet now.

        This isn’t anything like Reddit either. Journalists get paid, unlike Reddit mods and users. The news agencies can and do put content behind paywalls. If they choose to put content up for free that is also their choice. Then they don’t get paid for it.

        I think this whole thing makes it abundantly clear that the news sites benefit more from the links from Google and Meta then the other way around.