This might be a blessing in disguise. Let’s see how it plays out but I can’t help but feel the interaction between mass media and the internet has not been positive and a divorce might be what’s needed.
Does it, though? In the past the argument was that aggregators like Google were stealing site traffic by showing large excepts or summaries of the articles they linked to, and I could understand that, but the new Canadian law seems like it wants to attach a fee to simply showing a hyperlink. That’s fundamentally contrary to the way that the Internet was designed to work, and as the examples of blocking in the article demonstrate, it seems to confuse who is providing value to who in this specific instance. I take issue with the big platforms co-opting the open Internet, but penalizing them for showing links off their sites to news organizations seems to be the exact wrong thing to do about it.
Political leaders need better tech literacy like yesterday. Legislators not really understanding the fields they’re attempting to regulate is a problem that’s only going to get worse if trends continue.
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This might be a blessing in disguise. Let’s see how it plays out but I can’t help but feel the interaction between mass media and the internet has not been positive and a divorce might be what’s needed.
Lucky CA, murica needs to follow suit desperately
Does it, though? In the past the argument was that aggregators like Google were stealing site traffic by showing large excepts or summaries of the articles they linked to, and I could understand that, but the new Canadian law seems like it wants to attach a fee to simply showing a hyperlink. That’s fundamentally contrary to the way that the Internet was designed to work, and as the examples of blocking in the article demonstrate, it seems to confuse who is providing value to who in this specific instance. I take issue with the big platforms co-opting the open Internet, but penalizing them for showing links off their sites to news organizations seems to be the exact wrong thing to do about it.
Exactly this, very much a cut the noise to spite the face situation.
Political leaders need better tech literacy like yesterday. Legislators not really understanding the fields they’re attempting to regulate is a problem that’s only going to get worse if trends continue.
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