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YSK: Google to Block Access to Canadian News for Anyone Living in Canada (www.thestar.com)

The Online News Act passed last Thursday and would force platforms like Google and Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, to strike deals with Canadian media publishers for sharing, previewing and directing users to online Canadian news content.

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@fubo yeah, unfortunately these types of laws try to have their cake and eat it too

A similar law was passed in France, and predictably France news orgs lost significant traffic and cried foul.

It makes no sense to charge a search engine for the privilege of bringing customers to your website, and these types of laws always have predictable outcomes.

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@Etnies419 no, if you read the article even linking requires payment. That's why they're removing results entirely, rather than just removing summaries like they did in other countries

But to the point, in those countries leaving the links but removing the summaries also resulted in significant reductions in traffic for the news orgs.

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