I’m not surprised of their reaction to the new law C-18, but I’m pretty worried of its impact on the information reaching citizens and democracy.
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Its very similar to the law passed in australia, and facebook and google ended up caving. So it ended up working, mostly
https://www.wired.com/story/australia-media-code-facebook-google/#:~:text=In January 2021%2C the tech,news makes up less than
I think the law here is trying to get the same result. However I agree with you OP, Im not sure how successful it will be, especially if the result is more vulnerable canadians being directed toward unreliable and dangerous stuff…
I think there might have been better ways to boost trustworthy Canadian news