Canada says Google will pay $74 million annually to Canadian news industry under new online law::Canada’s government says it has reached a deal with Google for the company to contribute $100 million Canadian dollars annually to the country’s news industry
The Canadian law in question has specific provisions in it that would pass any lemmy instance by.
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That’s literally half the country, by the way.
There was never any chance this law was going to impact any lemmy instances.
The astroturf is strong with these people.
The only groups affected by this law are the obscenely wealthy. It amounts to whining about having to pay more fair share. There are dozens of ways to see that happen; perhaps this isn’t the most efficient, but you won’t see me crying for Google, Meta, Twitter, or any other social media giant.
True, thank you for pointing that out. I still disagree with the idea that you should have to pay to link to another web site. If they’re rehosting content from that website, like an article summary or picture, than absolutely. A link alone makes no sense, that’s driving traffic to that website. In any other business you’d be paying for referrals/finder fees for new customers, not the other way around.
Yeah, I fully agree. The goal of most websites is to get linked by Google, the argument that Google should then have to pay for giving the websites what they want anyways is weird.
I also don’t feel like the argument that it’s ok just because it targets wealthy companies changes whether the actual law makes sense or not.