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‘Disaster’: warning for democracy as experts condemn Meta over Canada news ban
(www.theguardian.com)
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Create a law that singles out specific players in a monopoly to pay other players in a falling monopoly (look who owns nearly all news media in Canada).
Make the law NOT about summarizing and ad funding but about linking which is fundamental to how the internet works and how all sites get found.
Facebook / Google links to Canadian news isn't valuable enough to them for the hassle so they turn them off, it really was the expected outcome.
I'm no big fan of the tech monopolies but this whole Liberal thing has been so fucking Liberal, it's like a parable.