Canadian lawmakers are locked in a dispute with internet technology companies over a law that would compel them to pay news publishers for content, years after a similar regulatory saga played out in Australia.
Some reflections on the Australian experience and what they might mean for Canada.
After Google’s move on Thursday, Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez sent a written statement calling the companies’ moves “deeply irresponsible and out of touch … especially when they make billions of dollars off of Canadian users” with advertising.
Australia’s regulatory experiment – the first of its kind in the world – also got off to a rocky start, but it has since seen tech companies, news publishers and the government reach a middle ground.
What a clusterfuck among organizations that I hate.
In the end I hope Google and Meta win this fight because government regulation of the internet has contributed to a lot more death and suffering than corporate regulation has.
10,000 seems like small potatoes compared to what China and North Korea does, now add in a couple dozen other countries which include places like Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.
You’re hoping Google “wins” a “fight” against the government of Canada for the regulation of its news business, and your rationale is that “government regulation of the internet” has contributed to “death”… and your example of that is North Korea?!!
That’s incredibly odd, sorry to say. It’s the strangest excuse for corporate bootlicking I have ever heard. It makes no sense at all to put all “governments” in the same category — Canada with North Korea and Russia, all in the same bag. And it’s even worse that you’re using these countries as examples when the news story here is about Canada making Google pay news publishers for use of their stories. Is this what North Korea does? North Koreans die by the thousands because their search engines have to pay the state news publisher?
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What a clusterfuck among organizations that I hate.
In the end I hope Google and Meta win this fight because government regulation of the internet has contributed to a lot more death and suffering than corporate regulation has.
It’s not too much government regulation that is going to see you watch your children die choking on a toxic atmosphere.
Sure it is… the government is has provided subsidies to O&G and several other industries known to pollute for decades.
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You sure about that?
10,000 seems like small potatoes compared to what China and North Korea does, now add in a couple dozen other countries which include places like Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.
You’re hoping Google “wins” a “fight” against the government of Canada for the regulation of its news business, and your rationale is that “government regulation of the internet” has contributed to “death”… and your example of that is North Korea?!!
That’s incredibly odd, sorry to say. It’s the strangest excuse for corporate bootlicking I have ever heard. It makes no sense at all to put all “governments” in the same category — Canada with North Korea and Russia, all in the same bag. And it’s even worse that you’re using these countries as examples when the news story here is about Canada making Google pay news publishers for use of their stories. Is this what North Korea does? North Koreans die by the thousands because their search engines have to pay the state news publisher?