Canada, pull yourself together man.
Canadian Officials Condemn Facebook for News Ban as Wildfires Burn
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Re: Canadian Officials Condemn Facebook for News Ban as Wildfires Burn
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
> How can Canada tax social media companies? They're not Canadian. I guess they can tax commerce that takes place on social media companies or ad sales, but that's really just taxing their own citizens. Meta has Canadian offices and does business in Canada. Even if they were doing business purely across the border, it doesn't mean that you aren't subject to Canadian law. It is perfectly possible to go after foreign e…
> It is that they have to pay new sources for copyrighted content that they display on Meta sites. In other words, if Meta displayed a CBC article, they would have to pay the CBC for the content. Meta decided that they didn't want to pay for other people's work. This is not correct AFAIK. Google lays out some of the problems with the law as written here: https://blog.google/intl/en-ca/company-news/outreach-initiat...
This is a lobbying piece written by a VP of one of the affected companies 8 months before the final version of the bill passed.
Re: Canadian Officials Condemn Facebook for News Ban as Wildfires Burn
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It is that they have to pay new sources for copyrighted content that they display on Meta sites. In other words, if Meta displayed a CBC article, they would have to pay the CBC for the content. Meta decided that they didn't want to pay for other people's work. This is not correct AFAIK. Google lays out some of the problems with the law as written here: https://blog.google/intl/en-ca/company-news/outreach-initiat...
This is a lobbying piece written by a VP of one of the affected companies 8 months before the final version of the bill passed.
Do you disagree with any of the specific language?
Re: Canadian Officials Condemn Facebook for News Ban as Wildfires Burn
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Instead they create this mechanism which basically lets the social media company walk away very narrowly if they don't like the economics Every business can walk away if they don't like the economics. How can Canada tax social media companies? They're not Canadian. I guess they can tax commerce that takes place on social media companies or ad sales, but that's really just taxing their own citizens. If journalism is…
> How can Canada tax social media companies? They're not Canadian. I guess they can tax commerce that takes place on social media companies or ad sales, but that's really just taxing their own citizens. Meta has Canadian offices and does business in Canada. Even if they were doing business purely across the border, it doesn't mean that you aren't subject to Canadian law. It is perfectly possible to go after foreign e…
>It is that they have to pay new sources for copyrighted content that they display on Meta sites.
Even linking to a news article without a title or blurb would have qualified.
>Meta decided that they didn't want to pay for other people's work.
If it makes them less money than it would cost, why would they?
Re: Canadian Officials Condemn Facebook for News Ban as Wildfires Burn
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a lobbying piece written by a VP of one of the affected companies 8 months before the final version of the bill passed.
Do you disagree with any of the specific language?
There’s not much to disagree with… or agree with.
The post doesn’t really explain what bill c-18 is doing. All I can tell is that google is very much against it, and they didn’t like it when Australia did it either.
Re: Canadian Officials Condemn Facebook for News Ban as Wildfires Burn
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you disagree with any of the specific language?
There’s not much to disagree with… or agree with. The post doesn’t really explain what bill c-18 is doing. All I can tell is that google is very much against it, and they didn’t like it when Australia did it either.
The post has three images that each detail a specific problem and propose a fix.
Re: Canadian Officials Condemn Facebook for News Ban as Wildfires Burn
#17Didn’t they ask for it?