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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Canada's new bill forces companies who shares a link to a Canadian news outlet to pay the outlet called a "link tax". Google doesn't want to pay the "link tax" so they got rid of every search result to Canadian news outlet in response. This effectively ensures nobody can see the news from Canadian news outlets through Google.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google prob won't remove news from other countries tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Heck if they only remove Canadian news that Bill C-18 defines as "news" then most of us probably won't even notice! One thing that doesn't get discussed enough is the narrow definition of news within C-18. Most of my news won't see a penny, because they're just rando web sites even though most of them are seasoned investigative journalists who lost their jobs (see my previous post re: hedge funds).

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