mf864 t1_ja0twwf wrote on February 26, 2023 at 12:14 AM

Reply to comment by Quietbutgrumpy in The Bill C-18 Reality: Everyone Loses When the Government Mandates Payments for Links by The1stCitizenOfTheIn

So why is google deciding their content isn't worth paying for (and no longer using it in results) bad exactly?

If the harm is "stealing" content and costing news companies money by doing so how is not using that content bad?

Quietbutgrumpy t1_ja0w71h wrote on February 26, 2023 at 12:31 AM

This is about canadian news content. I don't think we want or need a lot of foreign content , which is what they give us now.

mf864 t1_ja0xlr1 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 12:42 AM

What? This is about forcing google to pay to use Canadian news in search results because they are making money off ads in the search.

Now they are mad that google decides not to use those Canadian news sources in their search results anymore.

If the "harm" was using the content (and thereby taking money that would have gone to those news sources) why would not using it be bad?

Quietbutgrumpy t1_ja2x20k wrote on February 26, 2023 at 1:17 PM

This is NOT about making them use Canadian news but making them pay for it, as they are supposed to anyway. If they choose not to use Canadian content, do you really want to support them? Google is trying to influence gov't policy with this tactic, as they did unsuccessfully elsewhere.