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Canadian Senate passes bill requiring Google, Meta to pay for news (www.independent.co.uk)

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A Canadian bill that will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms is set to become law

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't want to paint the big corps as good guys cause they're not, but this bill is stupid. Websites used to pay others to have them link their content.

If I was running Google or Meta, I would do the same. When you're in the business of advertising, you don't pay the companies you bring traffic to, they pay you. That's how the business works.

Imagine if the customer service desk at a mall had to pay the shops for each customer they directed to a shop.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago

Not sure if you ever used MS' or Google's news but they tend to show you the entire or near the entire article. The websites get no money from ads on their websites aka they get no income.