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Meta's news ban is preventing Canadians from sharing vital information about the wildfires ripping through western Canada (www.businessinsider.com)
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Meta's news ban is preventing Canadians from sharing vital information about the wildfires ripping through western Canada::Canadians are calling on Meta to lift its news ban so they can share news about the wildfires in the Northwest Territories and British Columbia.

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[–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

They didn’t have to pay to link — they had to pay to publish. As in, links are fine, adding a summary based on the content of that link is not.

That said, C18 was definitely a bad idea, and Meta spun it to their advantage.

Considering the undue influence Meta had over WHICH news people saw, I think Meta made the right choice.

And Twitter X - shame on them for requiring login to search for emergency hashtags. But nobody’s talking about that one.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    From the text of the bill: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-18/royal-assent

    Making available of news content (2) For the purposes of this Act, news content is made available if

    (a) the news content, or any portion of it, is reproduced; or

    (b) access to the news content, or any portion of it, is facilitated by any means, including an index, aggregation or ranking of news content.

    (b) sounds like just linking or indexing it would count as making it available, and thus require payment.

    That seems to be backed up by at least a couple of the news sites: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-bill-c18-online-news-law-explained/

    What is Bill C-18? Bill C-18 is legislation that would force tech companies such as Google and Meta to negotiate compensation deals with news organizations for posting or linking to their work.

    https://ottawacitizen.com/news/politics/online-streaming-news-bills-whats-next

    At the Heritage committee, Liberal MPs resisted efforts from the Conservatives to take links out of the bill [...]

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