As wildfires spread, Canadian leaders ask Meta to reverse its news ban

Re:As wildfires spread, Canadian leaders ask Meta to reverse... by Obscurity4340 on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:19PM (#37200547)

How does Reddit and Twitter (maybe even Hackernews) and basically everyone else get around this besides Facebook? Is Reddit paying for every link now? I don't understand why I'm only hearing about Facebook with regard to issue

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Re:As wildfires spread, Canadian leaders ask Meta to reverse... by xvector on Sunday August 20, 2023 @12:44PM (#37200772)

The Canadian law names Meta and Google specifically. Others are not affected. It's targeted extortion.

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Re:As wildfires spread, Canadian leaders ask Meta to reverse... by notjulianjaynes on Sunday August 20, 2023 @02:21PM (#37201673)

I am not aware of Meta or Google being specifically named in the law, could you please provide a source for this?

This page does not make that reference at least: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/online-n...

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Re:As wildfires spread, Canadian leaders ask Meta to reverse... by elrnv on Sunday August 20, 2023 @03:37PM (#37202272)

The bill text is here: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-18/royal-a... The relevant piece from the summary is:

> (d) requires the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (the “Commission”) to maintain a list of digital news intermediaries in respect of which the enactment applies;

CRTC is a government entity so the government reserves the power to decide who is on the list. I couldn't find the list online though.

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Re:As wildfires spread, Canadian leaders ask Meta to reverse... by TheLoafOfBread on Sunday August 20, 2023 @02:51PM (#37201913)

No presence in Canada?

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