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Canada says Google will pay $74 million annually to Canadian news industry under new online law (www.independent.co.uk)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I fully agree. The goal of most websites is to get linked by Google, the argument that Google should then have to pay for giving the websites what they want anyways is weird.

I also don't feel like the argument that it's ok just because it targets wealthy companies changes whether the actual law makes sense or not.