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The law makes sense to me. He says, regarding Google, that "Linking is what a search engine does." But Google, as we know, is gleaning information from users, who are its product, to sell to advertisers (for more targeted advertising.)
So, links are not its business. Links are props to attract the product (us, its users) to it, to prepare us to be sold. Like all other businesses (IE, pubs) that have props (IE, barstools), Google should pay for some of its props.
Google and Meta are not the internet. They think it belongs to them and act like it's their kingdom. But they're wrong.
In some countries, Facebook is used as a synonym for "the Internet" because large portions of the population access the web through Facebook.
When does this come into affect? When I search generic news I'm still getting back Canadian new sources like CBC.
Bill C-18 will come into force later this year. It requires regulatory provisions that will need to be formally published and consulted through The Canada Gazette etc.
This seems to be Meta & Google flexing and doing their worst to local media before the proposed regulations are published.
Here’s a CBC breakdown from last Friday.
Reacting to Google's announcement Thursday, Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez told CBC News conversations with the company are ongoing and the "clarity" it wants about the Online News Act will come as the government hammers out regulations.
Here’s the 44-1/C-18 information page for the Parliament of Canada.
Hopefully we change this law. Trying to charge people for links is incredibly bad. There is no need for any law. If the news sites want to get money for links they can just put all their articles behind a login gate and make them not scrapable.
Trying to charge people for links is incredibly bad.
Good thing the law isnt charging people but the richest and most powerful corporations on the planet!
News sites used to generate a lot of ad revenue. Now, Google and Facebook combine to receive 80% of all ad revenue. If you see an ad online, it's likely Google or Facebook got paid for it.
But why do they make so much ad money? Because they host links to what people want. They're making tens of billions simply by hosting links to the content of others, who aren't making money anymore because advertisers give their money to the link hosters and not the content creators. This "link tax" is a way to ensure the content creators get their fair share. Google and Facebook don't create content, they link to it. Why should they get all the money?
So the hotel concierge doesn't actually 'do anything
They want to make an example of Canada... When companies have enough power to even think about trying and make an example out of a country then they need to be dismantled or, even better, nationalized because it means they're important enough to be considered utilities.