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• @tobi Tobi Lutke on x

  Embarrassing for Canada to draft such a dumb bill into law. https://twitter.com/...

• @garossino @garossino on x

  Google commands 97% of mobile search share. Google and Meta command 80% of all Canadian online advertising. And they're threatening us? Can anyone say ‘ANTITRUST’? https://twitter.com/...

• @acoyne @acoyne on x

  Never seen a government that so perfectly fused ruthless partisanship, ideological fanaticism and flower-child naivety. Usually it's one or the other. https://twitter.com/...

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  Official statement from @DCNorg regarding the passing of the Online News Act (C-18) in Canada and the ongoing threats being made by Google and Meta. [image]

• @garossino @garossino on x

  Accurate & verified information is the lifeblood of democracy. But not Facebook! Facebook's algorithm is coded to promote high engagement content—and rage is the highest value content. Even when they know it's more likely to be misinformation https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... […

• @heathermoandco @heathermoandco on x

  #BoycottGoogle. Canada & Australia passed laws to protect content providers from the raiding of content by giant corporations who have overseen open threats to democracy. So of course #CPC pumps out disinformation siding with #Google & #META. #NeverVoteConservative #cdnpoli

• @pierrepoilievre Pierre Poilievre on x

  Big tech will now pay LESS for Canadian news after your law. They have now stopped funding 🇨🇦journalism. And you have made 🇨🇦 news disappear. The opposite of what you promised. [image]

• @acoyne @acoyne on x

  Utter and complete fiasco. Rodriguez has to go; the govt needs to rethink. Google to remove news links in Canada in response to online news law | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/...

• @ivisonj John Ivison on x

  Now that we've reached High Noon, I suspect we will see a face-saving compromise reached when the regulatory process before the CRTC begins. The alternative is newspapers dead in the dirt, and Google and Facebook becoming as popular as halitosis in this country. https://twitter.c…

• @miket136 Michael Thomlinson on x

  Google, Facebook, Twitter et al are not public utilities. These companies don't owe Canada any particular service or extraordinary payments; they don't have to operate here at all. @pablorodriguez makes Canada look like a toddler having a tantrum after being denied a popsicle.

• @mattgurney Matt Gurney on x

  The key thing to understand about this is that the crisis in legacy media funding is real. The government was probably always going to be pressured into doing SOMETHING. But the thing they chose to do was bad. They were warned. They did it anyway. And made things much worse.

• @awilkinson Andrew Wilkinson on x

  This is a perfect example of something that sounds positive for the news industry on its surface: “Government mandates Facebook has to pay news sites” But the second order consequences will gut many Canadian news organizations: “Facebook and Google block news in Canada in... http…

• @garossino @garossino on x

  Torstar & Postmedia have, between them shed $600M annually in annual payroll since 2011. Taxpaying Canadian journalists gone. Just think of the journalism we Could. Have. Had.

• @garossino @garossino on x

  Me on this latest #Meta & #Google business. These companies are drawing ~$10 BILLION a year in ad revenue out of Canada—paying zero tax here on that income. But they'll use mob tactics to skip out on a 3% tariff. #cdnpoli https://twitter.com/...

• @moonalice Roger McNamee on x

  This is incredibly good news for Canadians: Meta won't negotiate with Canada over Online News Act. If Canada is really lucky, Meta will exit the country entirely. I wish this would happen in the USA. https://twitter.com/...

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on x

  The funny thing is that when this happened in Australia, there were squeals of outrage that Google and Meta objected to being extorted. But now they're pulling news from Canada as well, everyone seems to understand how stupid these laws are. Partly better comms. https://twitter.c…

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on x

  There's a perfectly coherent argument that the social value of news means those companies should get a subsidy. But claiming this is about copyright, competition or ‘using news’ is the most transparently dishonest bullshit.

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on x

  The whole thing is absurd. You want to charge two companies, but no-one else, to have *links* to news companies, but no-one else. Is it really so hard to admit you want a subsidy, and make an honest argument for that?

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on x

  So, Google stands on principle and follows Meta in pulling links to news in Canada, given the new Link Tax law there. If you want to charge someone a fee for doing something, where that fee has no economic basis, then they won't do it. https://blog.google/...

• @ketanj0 Ketan Joshi on x

  Google and Facebook both had massive wins when they went up against the Aus government and against Aus news publishers on this. They have to pay 0.000001% of their absurd profits to news publishers, and they get to host News Corp climate/energy denial and disinformation https://t…

• @parismarx Paris Marx on x

  But there's also an opportunity to think much bigger: to create an independent media fund, strengthen the public broadcaster, and even learn from the past to build public internet infrastructure and platform alternatives to reduce US tech influence. https://www.disconnect.blog/ .…

• @parismarx Paris Marx on x

  Canadian media is struggling, with significant job losses and closures in recent years, so the government responded by following the example set by Australia's news bargaining code to force platforms to pay for news content. https://www.disconnect.blog/ ... [image]

• @slate @slate on x

  “I think it was a catastrophic mistake.” https://slate.com/...

• @sophienadeau Sophie Nadeau on x

  This is an excellent summary of what's happening in the Canadian media ecosystem right now & as of this afternoon add Google to that headline https://slate.com/...

• @mx_annelise Annelise on x

  This piece argues (persuasively, to me) that the Canadian government's attempt to save journalism will make things worse. As California state government fancies itself as another savior, I can't imagine we'll meet a better fate https://slate.com/...

• @bzubyk Brad Zubyk on x

  Good news for our democracy folks. More tax dollars promised to our “private” media already dependent on government largesse to stay afloat. Media dependent on government is a sign of a healthy democracy according to Pablo. #cdnpoli https://www.cbc.ca/...

• @jessebrown Jesse Brown on x

  More bad news for newsrooms that refuse to take government media funding. https://www.cbc.ca/...

• @lawgeeknz Rick Shera on x

  Relevant for New Zealand also going down this path https://twitter.com/...

• @pahwa_nitish Nitish Pahwa on x

  wrote about how a new law in Canada, passed with the intent of making Google and Facebook share money with news outlets, may end up accelerating the decline of the country's media sector. with insights from @JesseBrown, @mgeist, and @doctorow: https://slate.com/...

• @miketmcmullen Mike McMullen on x

  “I think it was a catastrophic mistake.” https://slate.com/... via @slate The plan was never to save journalism, the plan was to control the news. Wake up Peoplekind

• @jessebrown Jesse Brown on x

  Spoke to Slate about our shitshow. https://slate.com/...