Why does social media have to fund journalism... they pay taxes here.
"Without access to real fact-based news created by real journalists, Facebook will become far less attractive to users and advertisers," Deegan said in a statement. "We expect more and more advertisers and their agencies will begin pulling advertising from the platform in response to this unilateral, undemocratic, and unreasonable move."
This is complete horseshit. How is it undemocratic, it's a private company and they're free to do what they want. Canadian Government decided to mandate that by linking you owe a share of your profit. This is not how the internet works. No-one forced the CBC to create an instragram account and maintain it, sharing their own news on the platform.
If you demand to be paid for something, they're free to not pay for it. Welcome to the real world where you can't just dictate things to people and expect them to take it.
Personally I find this hilarious. The argument that Meta (Facebook) and Google are making "so much money" from Canadian News is in itself laughable. If anything they're helping keep Canadian News relevant by suggesting it to people. No-one forced CBC to go make an instagram account etc.
So I think the law is working great. They demanded if you're going to link to a website you have to pay them a share of the revenue you generate. So these companies have elected that it's not worth the cost and will not link to them. Seemingly the media is going full shocked pikachu over this.
Here we go... Finally.
Buckle up as we're in for a ride. Thankfully this will only impact those who bought in the last 5~ years. Pricing before then was much more reasonable and should be able to absorbed.
It seems odd to me that these are often discussed at a "server wide" level. If a community doesn't like the posts they can ban the user no? Shouldn't the Administrators try to focus on running the site and gross rule violating content and not be involved in random bots?
I'm not an admin, but I think an instance wide rule against links anywhere that are affiliate links would be insane and maybe you should go.
So you're saying if lets say GCPGrey moved his community here, he couldn't have links to his store here or other material as that would be "bad".
Let's get real here, Advertising is going to happen, donations are going to happen. If you don't like that you're going to have a hard time on the Internet.
Isn't this one of the reasons they're paid insanely well?
According to indeed.
CA$93,823 /yr -- Firefighter
CA$110,848 /yr -- Senior Firefighter
CA$123,695 /yr -- Lead Firefighter
It's a manual labour job that pays basically six figures when you start. The reason for that is the risk... The same reason other jobs pay high like crab fisherman.
This is an insane idea.
So the hotel concierge doesn't actually 'do anything
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Vehicle stuck on train tracks, Kitchener woman charged with impaired driving
(kitchener.citynews.ca)
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‘See you in court’ may no longer be how you fight a bylaw ticket in Waterloo Region
(www.therecord.com)
How is it destroying a public good?
The public good is being destroyed by themselves. They've been acquired and are running 90% AP Wire service pieces. My local news in a top 10 CMA area is basically nothing but opinion pieces.
Our news has been declining for years as people have moved away from a subscription model. People don't wake up on Saturday morning and read a paper cover to cover anymore and they have failed to adapt.