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.. But I posted it using kbin :)
How are they gonna invoice this one?
They will charge the instance hosting the link. Like they where going to charge Facebook not the users.
No. Stop spreading propaganda.
Well here is the law..
It makes no word of for profit / non profit, it defines the intermediary posting links as basically anything more popular than the news outlet they are linking to and gives the media outlets all sorts of power to complain and escalate if they think linking is unfair.
You can go read the law?
https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-18/royal-assent
Are you making money personally by posting media links on Lemmy?
No.
This is 100% about billionaire anti-democracy bad actors having control over what people see. And profiting by doing so.
It's UNBELIEVABLE how zillionaires Zuckerberg and Google have managed to convince people that their own crappy behaviors are all to blame on the Liberal Canadian government. It didn't have to be this way. Zuckerberg and Google CHOSE THIS.
Didn't say the bill applied to users AT ALL but does apply to the intermediary hosting the links.. IE lemmy.ca could be targeted due to the vague broad definition. If Lemmy.ca became a popular source of information news outlets could demand arbitration or try to harass lemmy.ca legally. Which even if there was nothing for them to win could be costly.
You're wrong by that as well. This law hands control of news back to the people.
Show an example from the bill please I have done so to highlight that it vaguely defines who is liable. How does this help the people by charging for listing links?
skipped over this better definision in the bill
lemmy instances would fall under a social media service
Links would fall under "is facilitated by any means, including an index"
Why are you defending anti-democratic multi-billionaire influence peddlers META and Google instead of people? We have to be profiting by linking news items to be in violation. We are NOT profiting here.
Who said I was? It is a bad / vague law.. I think most of the traditional news outlets are just as bad trying to milk money with clickbait and one sided stories.
This is designed to stop reporting in a way that appeases an algorithm set by billionaires. It frees MSM and all news outlets to report facts only. It sets all news outlets on an even footing. This will benefit Canadian citizens and democracy.
The bill only outlines a mandate to revenue share nothing about fairness.
Explain how....
Explain how?
All the top hits for news always show up in google and are often shared online.. If the de-listing happens then ZERO of the Traditional news outlets will have any online exposure and more rapidly die the slow death they were already going through. I don't feel sorry for them and their click bait these days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_ownership_in_Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmedia_Network Also NEARLY all traditional news / media outlets in canada are consolidated and owned by Bell, Rogers and Post media
See how this helps to break up monopolies? IT IS AWESOME
Anyway, this helps to end Zillion dollar greed corps/fascists from blocking truth. People will still be able to read news and the better news providers will thrive.
I'm done.
Oh, and #BoycottGoogle #BoycottTwitter #BoycottMeta 👍🏻