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A comment on Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products. Parent comment

Re:Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products by bawolff on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:33PM (#36528885)
> It's the simple realization that good journalism requires good money, and that the current balance between news organizations and internet brokers isn't up to the task.

Nobody owes anyone else a business model.

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Re:Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products by JumpCrisscross on Friday June 30, 2023 @03:03AM (#36531484)
> Nobody owes anyone else a business model

But there is public interest in having newspapers. (A tax on large digital ad platforms to subsidise newspapers makes much more sense.)

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Re:Canada’s Bill C-18 and Our Search and News Products by bawolff on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:57PM (#36538349)
Canada does have a bunch of subsidies for news already (not to mention cbc is gov funded)
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