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Are instances of fediverse platforms going to be affected by this law? Does it apply at all to the fediverse?

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[–] ImplyingImplications 2 points 2 years ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Canada's new bill forces companies who shares a link to a Canadian news outlet to pay the outlet called a "link tax". Google doesn't want to pay the "link tax" so they got rid of every search result to Canadian news outlet in response. This effectively ensures nobody can see the news from Canadian news outlets through Google.

[–] ImplyingImplications 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My understanding is that Canadian news outlets are already suffering specifically because of Google. Wouldn't keeping the status quo also be causing harm to these outlets?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Google has a monopoly on search engines. They should have been broken up a long time ago.

I don't know what the solution to helping Canadian outlets other than promote an alternative search engine or educate people on how to do proper research.

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