I could not care less about Facebook/Instagram news, but I am really skeptical of this new bill. Decent Op-Ed on bill C-18 here: https://www.mcgill.ca/maxbellschool/max-policy/c-18
I could not care less about Facebook/Instagram news, but I am really skeptical of this new bill.
That's interesting. Australia was the first country to try and force Facebook to pay for news, and Facebook agreed to it that time. Does anyone know exactly what's different about the case with...
That's interesting. Australia was the first country to try and force Facebook to pay for news, and Facebook agreed to it that time.
Does anyone know exactly what's different about the case with Canada?
My guess is that murdoch probably has news agencies all over the world while Canada is (as always) irrelevant and doesn't have anything internationally notable.
My guess is that murdoch probably has news agencies all over the world while Canada is (as always) irrelevant and doesn't have anything internationally notable.
How will this affect link aggregators such as Reddit (and I guess tildes in a way)? I assume the bill would not affect these sites because it's user generated content, users post the links to the...
How will this affect link aggregators such as Reddit (and I guess tildes in a way)? I assume the bill would not affect these sites because it's user generated content, users post the links to the news.
It seems to depend on the net worth of the site. So looks like it definitely wouldn't affect Tildes. I'm not sure about Reddit. See the act in full here:
It seems to depend on the net worth of the site. So looks like it definitely wouldn't affect Tildes. I'm not sure about Reddit. See the act in full here:
The Act would regulate digital news intermediaries that make news content produced by news outlets available to persons in Canada. Search engines and social media services fall within the definition of digital news intermediary. [...] The Act will only apply to digital news intermediaries if there is a significant bargaining power imbalance between the operators of a digital news intermediary and the news outlets producing the news content a digital news intermediary makes available.
Ooof that’s such a blunt approach, especially if search engines are affected. Would Wikipedia be covered as well due to the citations? I guess the argument for power imbalance isn’t as strong but...
Ooof that’s such a blunt approach, especially if search engines are affected. Would Wikipedia be covered as well due to the citations? I guess the argument for power imbalance isn’t as strong but if search engines and the largest social media platforms are filtering the news out, who knows where Canadians will opt to go?
Was listening to the Hark Fork podcast (I think?) and it seems that Facebook is trying to move away from political/news content mostly because engagement is better and there's less divisiveness....
Was listening to the Hark Fork podcast (I think?) and it seems that Facebook is trying to move away from political/news content mostly because engagement is better and there's less divisiveness. So Canadians will probably have a good mental break!
Yeah I was gonna say, I'm not going to facebook for news! I'm there to see what my relatives back home are up to. Less unrelated junk in my feed is a win.
Yeah I was gonna say, I'm not going to facebook for news! I'm there to see what my relatives back home are up to. Less unrelated junk in my feed is a win.
I could not care less about Facebook/Instagram news, but I am really skeptical of this new bill.
Decent Op-Ed on bill C-18 here: https://www.mcgill.ca/maxbellschool/max-policy/c-18
That's interesting. Australia was the first country to try and force Facebook to pay for news, and Facebook agreed to it that time.
Does anyone know exactly what's different about the case with Canada?
My guess is that murdoch probably has news agencies all over the world while Canada is (as always) irrelevant and doesn't have anything internationally notable.
How will this affect link aggregators such as Reddit (and I guess tildes in a way)? I assume the bill would not affect these sites because it's user generated content, users post the links to the news.
I guess sites like Tildes are safe because we don't post the article's summary, and the title is often editorialized by the poster.
It seems to depend on the net worth of the site. So looks like it definitely wouldn't affect Tildes. I'm not sure about Reddit. See the act in full here:
Ooof that’s such a blunt approach, especially if search engines are affected. Would Wikipedia be covered as well due to the citations? I guess the argument for power imbalance isn’t as strong but if search engines and the largest social media platforms are filtering the news out, who knows where Canadians will opt to go?
Will this just mean that we only get American news in our FB feeds and Google search results?
Was listening to the Hark Fork podcast (I think?) and it seems that Facebook is trying to move away from political/news content mostly because engagement is better and there's less divisiveness. So Canadians will probably have a good mental break!
A huge win for Canada
Yeah I was gonna say, I'm not going to facebook for news! I'm there to see what my relatives back home are up to. Less unrelated junk in my feed is a win.
Can we do the US next?