Re:Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products
by basisword on Thursday June 29, 2023 @06:23PM
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Governments are there to serve their citizens, not the interests of foreign multinational companies. If this is good for Canadian businesses and the citizens running them and working for them then good for them.
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Re:Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products
by throwaway104782 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @07:49PM
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How is Google and Meta removing links to news businesses that really on eyeballs to generate revenue a good thing for those Canadian businesses?
Re:Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products
by cscurmudgeon on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:18PM
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If robbing is good for Canadian businesses and the citizens running them and working for them then good for them.
Re:Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products
by cwalv on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:54AM
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What about the citizens not running those businesses? This may not exactly be a "great firewall", but it seems like your argument could be applied equally to that, and it's hard for me to believe it's really a "good" for citizens in general