Canada says Google will pay $74 million annually to Canadian news industry under new online law::Canada’s government says it has reached a deal with Google for the company to contribute $100 million Canadian dollars annually to the country’s news industry
It’s about time Canada got some of that internet money that it so rightly deserve.
Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Obligatory fuck Facebook.
But reminder that this law would require sites like Lemmy (or instance owners more specifically), to pay money simply for hosting links to news sites. Terrible law imo.
I think it’s reasonable to require fees for rehosting an article or pictures on your web page, but charging just to have a url link is totally antithetical to the structure of the internet. If anything those links drive traffic to news websites, where they are free to host advertisements or require subscriptions.
grte@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
The Canadian law in question has specific provisions in it that would pass lemmy instance by.
source (archive)
That’s literally half the country, by the way.
There was never any chance this law was going to impact any lemmy instances.
there1snospoon@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
The astroturf is strong with these people.
The only groups affected by this law are the obscenely wealthy. It amounts to whining about having to pay more fair share. There are dozens of ways to see that happen; perhaps this isn’t the most efficient, but you won’t see me crying for Google, Meta, Twitter, or any other social media giant.
Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
True, thank you for pointing that out. I still disagree with the idea that you should have to pay to link to another web site. If they’re rehosting content from that website, like an article summary or picture, than absolutely.