Category: Online News Act

Cory Morgan: The Online News Act Is Nothing but a Cash Grab Foisted on Social Media Platforms

June 9, 2023
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Commentary The standoff between the Trudeau government and large social media platforms over the Online News Act (Bill C-18) is heating up. Meta and Google are both musing about cutting off links to Canadian news sites in response to the proposed shakedown, and it is making news providers dependent upon internet traffic nervous. In today’s…

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Peter Menzies: Publishers Rightly Fear Bill C-18

June 1, 2023
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Commentary Ignoring pleas from publishers for the preservation of their independence, Canada’s ruling party has turned up the heat on innovators who believe in freedom of the press and want the state to keep its eyes, ears, and nose out of the nation’s newsrooms. The most egregious example took place in the Senate Transport and…

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Google Tests Blocking News Content for Some Canadians in Response to Government Bill

April 20, 2023
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Google is blocking some Canadian users from viewing news content in what the company says is a test run of a potential response to the Liberal government’s online news bill. Also known as Bill C-18, the Online News Act would require digital giants such as Google and Meta, which owns Facebook, to negotiate deals that…

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Chamber of Commerce Warns of ‘Serious Threat to Privacy of Canadians’

March 21, 2023
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A parliamentary committee has requested internal and external documents from tech companies to see what kind of discussions they are having around upcoming legislation in Canada—a move that critics say violates privacy rights and sets a precedent for such probes. The House of Commons heritage committee wants to see what big tech companies Meta and…

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Google to Stop Blocking News for Some Canadian Users Next Week, MPs Hear

March 10, 2023
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Google executives appearing before a House of Commons committee on March 10 said the online search-engine giant would stop running tests next week that are currently blocking news content for some Canadian users. Google said in late February that it had blocked news for some Canadians as part of a test it was running in…

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