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I'm no fan of Google, but if it was me making the decision I would have told them to pack sand. Google is providing them with a service, not the other way around.
I'm no fan of Google, but if it was me making the decision I would have told them to pack sand. Google is providing them with a service, not the other way around.
Agree completely. What's in it for Google? Will they really make that much more money providing news, versus just cutting Canada off?
And who gets to distribute the revenue?
I'm no fan of Google, but if it was me making the decision I would have told them to pack sand. Google is providing them with a service, not the other way around.
Do you find this more valuable than the act of actually researching, writing, editing, and publishing the articles themselves?
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Countries are now extorting American tech companies, that’s what’s really going on here.
Yeah it’s a shakedown. I don’t see them getting any money out of Facebook though. I actually think Facebook is a better experience for users without news.
I'm no fan of Google, but if it was me making the decision I would have told them to pack sand. Google is providing them with a service, not the other way around.
What is the service? Indexing and aggregating news? This is commodity now. Do you find this more valuable than the act of actually researching, writing, editing, and publishing the articles themselves?
If Google stops linking to news articles, media companies would be the bigger losers than Google would be. Admittedly Google isn't Facebook -- it's value to users comes from indexing everything. This is probably why they accepted this deal.
As a Canadian, I wish that they'd just gone ahead and blocked Canadian news.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Countries are now extorting American tech companies, that’s what’s really going on here.
Yeah it’s a shakedown. I don’t see them getting any money out of Facebook though. I actually think Facebook is a better experience for users without news.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah it’s a shakedown. I don’t see them getting any money out of Facebook though. I actually think Facebook is a better experience for users without news.
Facebook, all Meta properties no longer allow sharing anything considered news in Canada. If you put in a link to a news site it will be blocked. At one point they were event blocking news satire. People sharing news now will drop in an image instead of a link. Much less useful.
The BBC article from 2021 linked above even says "The law is seen as a test case for similar regulation around the world."