As Canada Passes Corrupt Link Tax, Meta Says No More News Links In Canada
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Two weeks ago, Canada’s Heritage Minister, Pablo Rodriguez, who has been the main Canadian government official pushing for C-18, the bullshit link tax bill, that is just a corrupt wealth transfer f…

TechDirt’s Mike Masnick gets it exactly right in covering Canada’s C-18 bill:

If you believe in the open web, if you believe that you should never have to pay to link to something, if you believe that no one should have to pay to provide you a benefit, then you should support Meta’s stance here. Yes, it’s self-serving for Meta. Of course it is. But, even if it’s by accident, or a side-effect, it’s helping to defend the open web, against a ridiculous attack from an astoundingly ignorant and foolish set of Canadian politicians.

And just generally points out the huge holes in Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez understanding from the Power & Politics Interview.

  • Boris MannOPAEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Right Bill C-18 exclusively supports the paywalled corporate news media in Canada. Read what OpenMedia has to say about it https://action.openmedia.org/page/121153/petition/1

    I’ve worked to make it easier for everyone to post online for many years precisely because of corporate media in Canada.

    I already support independent media outlets like The Tyee directly.