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Re:Canadian government pulls all advertising, escalating sho... by telotortium on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @05:10PM (#36607174)
If the persons who grew the coffee beans/roasted/brewed gave the beans away without asking for compensation because they hoped to obtain ad revenue, most people wouldn't go out of their way to pay the bean producers.

Canadian news media (unlike the vast majority of US news media besides NPR and PBS) is very significantly government subsidized, so this bill is really a stealth tax on Meta and Google.

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Re:Canadian government pulls all advertising, escalating sho... by dopidopHN on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @09:07PM (#36609596)
At the end of the day, the question remains : do we want local news?

Meta and Alphabet are not gonna run news room in Manitoba and Northern Ontario.

If we don’t, fine. Local news can die and be replaced by influencer I guess ?

Then if we do, who is paying for it.

In your analogy, Meta & Alphabet are installing a patio in front of the coffee shops, and offer samples of the most popular latte of the day for free and you can get as many as you want.

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Re:Canadian government pulls all advertising, escalating sho... by cscurmudgeon on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @09:21PM (#36609671)
> Then if we do, who is paying for it.

Simple, whoever wants the news.

> In your analogy, Meta & Alphabet are installing a patio in front of the coffee shops, and offer samples of the most popular latte of the day for free and you can get as many as you want.

Nah, the right analogy is Meta/Google drive a large bus of customers (only a fraction with tickets) to the coffee shop and not everyone goes into the shop. News orgs are then asking Google to pay them for Google driving the bus.

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