Breakingviews - Breakingviews: Canada is calling Meta’s bluff
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The company plans to cut off news access on Facebook and Instagram in Canada. If Australia is any guide, the blackout likely will be short-lived, columnist Anita Ramaswamy writes.
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Link taxes are a terrible idea and go directly against what makes the entire fucking Internet work. I’m as fond of seeing Meta getting owned as the next guy, but this is wrong.

Link taxes are a great thing for democracy and to combat the largest corporations in history. They’re really effective and they’ve been used before. See Australia. Facebook/Meta paid and is paying.

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