Ottawa has published a set of proposed regulations for its Online News Act, also known as Bill C-18, that address a number of concerns Google and Meta have voiced about the legislation which prompted the tech giants to say they will begin blocking Canadian news later this year.
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s department said on July 10 that it is proposing regulations for implementing the Online News Act to include criteria under which platforms like Meta—which owns Facebook and Instagram—and Google can be exempt from Ottawa’s mandate that tech giants must compensate Canadian media outlets to link their content….