• BuoyantCitrus@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Good. This law is ridiculous and I’m glad it won’t give the result they intended. Being able to link to things freely is a very basic part of the web, we really shouldn’t mess with that. And Facebook is a ridiculous place to get news from so it may have ancillary benefits as well in terms of maybe slightly improving public discourse and encouraging people onto other platforms with more transparency around their content weighting and data use practices.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      How is it ridiculous to ask them to share some of the profit they make from Canadian work with Canada?

          • BuoyantCitrus@lemmy.caEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            I did, because it tries to regulate merely linking to content, something I consider absurd. What I did not say is that it is “ridiculous to ask them to share some of the profit they make from Canadian work with Canada”. So I responded as such. I’m not terribly interested in engaging with someone who puts words in my mouth. If you’re curious for more of my thoughts on this topic, I intend to respond to the interesting comment by @StaggersAndJags@kbin.social when I have time to be more thoughtful.

            • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              0·
              1 year ago

              That’s exactly what this law does, it makes them obligated to pay taxes to the government to compensate Canadian news agencies because they make profit off of them.

              https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c18_1.html

              “Overview Many Canadians access news content through digital intermediaries. Bill C-18 would enact the Online News Act (the Act), which proposes a regime to regulate digital platforms that act as intermediaries in Canada’s news media ecosystem in order to enhance fairness in the Canadian digital news market. The Bill introduces a new bargaining framework intended to support news businesses to secure fair compensation when their news content is made available by dominant digital news intermediaries and generates economic gain.”

              So, again, how is it unfair to compensate the people whose work you profit from?

              • wvenable@lemmy.caEnglish
                0·
                1 year ago

                Does your employer pay you by paying taxes and then government distributes them to you? If there was a real business here, then an arrangement would be made between Facebook and these news organizations. Facebook wouldn’t want to lose out on the profit so they’d pay news agencies for the content. But the truth this, the news agencies are profiting far more than Facebook is from this arrangement. They literally need the government to step in because there is no actual business here.

                The news agencies can absolutely pull out of Facebook. They can opt out of summaries and photos. But they don’t.

                • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  0·
                  1 year ago

                  Eh…

                  Universal healthcare, roads, free education…

                  My employer pays taxes and I profit from it.

                  You think an arrangement could be made by individual news agencies where the freaking government couldn’t? Meta would have just blocked them one by one instead of all at once.

                  News agencies don’t profit because people don’t click and they actually lose profit because these companies are responsible for people losing faith in traditional media by intentionally pushing disinformation because fear and hate increases engagement and they don’t care about the consequences.