Not against foreign owned companies they cannot. As much as they would love to force these companies to both carry and pay for news, those companies can choose not to carry the news and thus not pay for it. Canada can not force them to do so.
Yes, key word here is “make deals,” which is what Australia ended up doing. They didn’t just dictate terms like Canada seems to want to. The entire point of these companies banning news is to remind our government that no, you can’t just dictate your terms, you actually have to negotiate. Maybe they will, we’ll have to wait and see.
Just make a bot that reposts CBC rss feeds. I guess you might need to filter ads if they put those in-between stories, some rss feeds do.
The whole point of the bill that caused this is that they want money. They won’t get money out of the fediverse. It was never about exposure.
I much prefer corporations owning rental housing than individuals. They at least have staff and somewhat understand the laws. The idea that all sorts of individuals will choose to be landlords of one or two properties and deal with all the toxic shit that comes with it is incredibly naive in my opinion.
That’s not very notable, U of T also has faculty clubs that are licensed. Most universities even have grad clubs/bars for students.
Yes, the blocking in Australia was part of the negotiation as it is here in Canada. In the end the Australian news companies did have to negotiate, they did not get to demand whatever income they want like many people here seem to suggest and want.
I have no sympathy for ad driven businesses. Let me buy access to ad free news and I’ll be interested. Fundamentally this is because the traditional news business model stopped working and they never bothered to update to a model that does work. Instead, they want to legislate that they get paid without even trying to adapt or improve.
Yes, which is literally why Google said they are preparing to remove links. They are not going to incur completely unknown penalties. In Australia Meta and others also pulled links for the same reason. It was only after they negotiated a price that worked for both sides that they came back. If I ran Google or Meta I’d do exactly the same thing.
It’s called negotiation. What Canada is doing is not that. They are demanding unbounded amounts of money.
In Australia they ended up negotiating a price that worked for both sides. No doubt a predictable among each year too.
Hopefully we change this law. Trying to charge people for links is incredibly bad. There is no need for any law. If the news sites want to get money for links they can just put all their articles behind a login gate and make them not scrapable.
Because they’ve built the production systems and talent to do it. Once you ramp up those systems then you can build quicker. We can’t anymore because of decades of anti-nuclear advocacy.