Google Canada has told senators that it would be reasonable to reconsider whether it shares links to news sites if the government’s online news bill becomes law, but it is not promising to block them.
Richard Gingras, the vice-president of the company’s news division, told a Senate committee Wednesday that Google has shared its concerns with the legislation for over a year.
Bill C-18 would require tech giants to pay Canadian media companies for linking to or otherwise repurposing their content online.
But Gingras said those concerns have not been considered and that recent amendments to the bill have made things worse in some cases….