RangerRay
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Or maybe spamming the board to try to juice subscriptions?
The End of the Virtual Land of the Free
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I suspect that may be part of it too, get as much free exposure as they can now.
RangerRay
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I usually went straight to news sites, but sometimes I or friends of mine would share interesting articles on Facebook and discuss them, much like we do here.I've never actually used either Google or Facebook for news feed. I go directly to the news providers site, CNN, BBC , CBC, NationalPost, even Fox. My guess is C18 won't effect my news browsing habit at all.
We'll see.
My understanding was that under C18, that was now verboten unless Facebook paid the media companies Danegeld.
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Doesn’t make sense for my feed. I already have subscription!
Well this is embarassing.
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Wait for Meta to decide operating in Canada isn't worth the hassle, and the government has to explain to people why they can't see pictures of grandkids anymore.
Meta leaving would not be a bad thing for a whole pile of good reasons.
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It would have negative impacts, social media isn't all bad.
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Embarrassing in that the CBC mis-titled the article?
“CBC asks competition bureau to investigate why Meta is able to comply with Canadian law.”
The ‘woe is us’ horse is well-expired and getting flogged is only making it rot faster…
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I'll bet they use the same language and phrasing too.
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Yes…CanTass…more than a billion dollars and still reaping in advertising revenue…
...negative impacts such as??
The Trudeau government...f**king up things that aren't even ours to f**k up. The Medusa of the west - half that see her turn to stone instantly and go nowhere, the rest hide their eyes and slowly back away...
May mess up all the grandparents & families out there who rely on it to see what their distant family members are up to and how they are growing up, and all the immigrants who use it to keep in touch with friends & family back home
Russia doesn't have Facebook. Nor does China. Does Canada eventually get added to that list??
What a badge of honour that would be! He can put 'Screwing up the news' right up there with the emergencies act, freezing accounts, turning down japan and Germany for LNG, and having the least productive economy in the G7 after Japan.
(Sorry, I keep forgetting that just because a thread mentions Trudeau doesn't mean it's the Trudeau thread...my sheer rage blinds me at times...)
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The whole issue is not about "re-broadcasting" other people's content, it is about being able to share news headlines that include links to the publisher's website. This is why Meta and Google are arguing that they essentially provide free advertising to media outlets, given that much of these corporation's traffic now comes from services like Facebook, Twitter, and Google... the CBC still makes money whenever someone clicks on one of their articles found in a Facebook post or that shows up in a Google feed, they just don't make money off the article being displayed in the feed if nobody wants to read it. Google and Meta are referring to it as "a tax on links" for a reason. This is why many smaller media outlets are complaining about this new policy, as the majority of their web traffic originates from social media shares and Google news feeds... perhaps now whatever profit this forum website makes will now have to be negotiated individually with different news outlets, to ensure CBC gets its "fair share". Here (Army.ca), unlike on social media, it is common for people to copy and paste the whole article so that readers do not need to go to the source publisher's website, where they make money off ad revenue or subscriptions.
For example, if I want to read about wildfires in BC I may use Google to find news headlines and click on a link that brings me to a local news outlet in Kamloops (then they make money). If Google can't provide news though I may just default to looking at a larger news companies website, like CBC.ca.
The government's argument could be expanded to say that Google needs to profit share with every single website that they display in a web search, whether the user clicks on the link or not, insisting that it is not fair for Google to be profitable and some of these websites to fail when Google is making billions off telling people looking to find a website like theirs that it exists.
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…and how much is the redirect service worth to a website for having Google/Meta index them and provide a direct link to their content?
Goose…Gander…
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The Beaverton is upset that they have been clumped in with the "news"
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I feel bad for The Beaverton, but they should be blaming CBC and their ilk, not crawling to them for sympathy... Meta wouldn't be blocking satirical sites if the Canadian legacy media organizations hadn't decided to pick an unwinnable fight that they were on the wrong side of.
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Bah. Satirical websites produce nothing but disinformation that honest hard-working fact checkers have to set right.
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