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FIRSTFREED0CELL t1_j9mzn6x wrote

Reply to comment by VanillaElectrical331 in Google blocking news content for some Canadians in response to government bill by Defiant_Race_7544

Australia passed a similar law a while ago, and both Google and Meta caved and are now paying for news content.

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womensweekly t1_j9nsz9n wrote

Yeah and it's shit. Go to news.google.com.au and all you get is the Murdoch press and right wing aligned shit. Used to get a good range of smaller outlets.

They should stop hosting media outlets that support this view, showing a snippet and byline shouldn't be a copyright issue and be deemed fair use.

If media outlets don't want to have their content appear in search results they should update their robots.txt

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