Re:Google and Meta will stop showing Canadian sourced news
by int_19h on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:00PM
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Then maybe the government should focus instead on forcing them to be open?
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Re:Google and Meta will stop showing Canadian sourced news
by tomlin on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:42AM
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How would a Canadian government force an American company to be more open?
Re:Google and Meta will stop showing Canadian sourced news
by int_19h on Sunday July 02, 2023 @03:58AM
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The same exact way they are doing here - pass a law requiring the company to comply with certain standards if it wants to operate in Canada and lawfully provide services to Canadian customers. Standards that could, for example, include the requirement for all content on the platform to be indexable. Or even to mandate open protocols and federation.
Re:Google and Meta will stop showing Canadian sourced news
by tomlin on Thursday July 13, 2023 @04:52PM
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The word used was "open", and you wouldn't be able to force a company to open itself to intellectual theft at the hands of a foreign government. You're reducing a complex legal/rights policy into "wats the problem just do it guys" mentality. You can't even get rights to index something niche, like the Ontario Opera archive catalogue without running into several unions and trade rights representatives. To think that everyone from Google to Netflix could just do this is hilarious.