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Re:The Lose-Lose-Lose-Lose Bill C-18 Outcome: Meta Blocking ... by chaostheory on Sunday August 06, 2023 @06:53PM (#37027778)
> Having the opposite effect where there is less traffic going to these media sites, and will have a big impact on their bottom line from their innability to run ads on their own domains and make revenue that way.

I think this happened to France early on. What they did was to force Google to pay no matter what. Optically, it looks like extortion and protectionist laws for incumbents too big to fail.

I’m not sure Canada can go that route though since they probably care about their relationship with the US unlike France.

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Re:The Lose-Lose-Lose-Lose Bill C-18 Outcome: Meta Blocking ... by nonethewiser on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:35AM (#37030179)
I can’t find that anywhere. I see google was fined for not compensating publishers. But not that google blocked news or whatever in France and still owed publishers something.
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Re:The Lose-Lose-Lose-Lose Bill C-18 Outcome: Meta Blocking ... by xvector on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:37AM (#37030197)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/business/media/google-fra...

After Google decided to block all news, the French government accused them of "not operating in good faith."

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Re:The Lose-Lose-Lose-Lose Bill C-18 Outcome: Meta Blocking ... by xvector on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:36AM (#37030188)
I really want to see tech companies pull out of France and watch it collapse technologically overnight because of this. Ridiculous that the government can get away with acting like this.
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