Bill C-18: Google to remove news links in Canada over online news law

Post by pcthrowaway » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 9:35 AM UTC

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Meh, as a Canadian, this might not be perfect, but I am happy whenever the government attempts to revitalize Canadian heritage and remove American influences.

As a canadian, this is a disaster of legislation, and I don't celebrate attempts at anything that are so bad for the internet. The precedent this sort of legislation sets will break the internet and also make companies leave canada in fear of having legislation targeted at them. And for no gain at all. No Canadian heritage will be saved, and this doesn't remove american influences because google and meta were going t…

Post by stackedinserter » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 9:52 AM UTC

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Deeply shameful, as a Canadian. I did not ask for this.

Post by gwright » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 11:14 AM UTC

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How do you define ‘power’. The unique aspect of government controls is that we grant the government a monopoly on force (imprisonment, seizure of property, etc). That is not the case with private actors and that is a significant and consequential difference in ‘power’.

Once you remove physical violence as a mean of interaction, you gain something else which would be violence by any other name. Government minimization is favored the most by those who would gain from the lack of counterbalance. In the case of market economy, if you can't use violence, then the world would be split into natural monopolies and monopolies after market consolidation. Everyone else will be feudalized beca…

Post by chongli » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 12:05 PM UTC

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No, it only applies to specifically regulated "digital news intermediaries" who are selected for regulation according to the criteria: Application 6 This Act applies in respect of a digital news intermediary if, having regard to the following factors, there is a significant bargaining power imbalance between its operator and news businesses: (a) the size of the intermediary or the operator; (b) whether the market for…

so then it depends on if HN ever embarasses the CRTC or the government. Better toe the line else be designated

Post by jen20 » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 12:31 PM UTC

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How do they say "You can index the story in your search engine, but you cannot borrow the text or images of our content for use on your own news site or info panels"?

I think you can do this with