"Au Québec, la critique de gauche du pouvoir des GAFAM a très peu d’espace. Durant les 2 dernières années, toute critique de ces projets de loi-là (#C18), dans les médias québécois, était associée aux conservateurs." Philippe de Grosbois. » #FGIQuebec https://pivot.quebec/2023/09/09/blocage-des-nouvelles-par-meta-soyons-realistes-exigeons-limpossible/

@amgine @bitbear

> In CAN, people can no longer get #news from Canadian news sources [...]

This is incorrect. People absolutely can, and do, still get #news from #Canadian sources online. Go to their #websites and check yourself; still there! Fully available.

You won't find #links from Facebook, but that's entirely different. We passed #C18, a "link tax", and they don't get enough #value from linking to be worth paying it.

#Blame #politicians, not the #companies, if you don't like that.

#Canada #C18 #Journalism #Media #News #Newspapers #BigTech #Google #Meta: "The approach works for larger outlets, but is awful if you are a smaller community outlet that produces news content with relatively fewer full time journalists. The smaller outlet may have a relatively comparable impact (accounting for size), but will receive less compensation under the Bill C-18 system. Moreover, given the 20% band requirement, the platforms can’t pay the smaller outlet more without raising the rates paid to the established players. The end result will be to entrench the more established outlets, while making the smaller, independent and digital-first outlets less competitive. During the Bill C-18 hearing, Liberal MP Lisa Hepfner stated that online news wasn’t real news. The Bill C-18 draft regulations reflect that attitude, rewarding the large lobbying groups and continuing the harmful effects of the Online News Act for many media stakeholders."

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/09/why-the-governments-bill-c-18-draft-regulations-are-stacked-against-small-independent-and-digital-first-media-outlets/

Some interesting data in this report from Chartbeat, which does web-traffic tracking for a lot of news organizations and other publishers: https://blog.chartbeat.com/2023/08/31/facebook-traffic-to-news-and-media-sites-continues-to-fall/

Facebook traffic to Canadian news sites, not surprisingly, plummeted in August as Meta rolled out its ban on news links.

But globally, Facebook traffic in general to sites that Chartbeat tracks (not just news) has been way down, too — in a trend that started more than a year ago.

#facebook #meta #c18 #socialmedia #news #journalism

Ça serait peut-être temps pour le gouvernement du #Canada de s'occuper aussi de ce réseau social avant qu'il ne soit trop tard. #c18 #gafam #canpol

L’année où LinkedIn est devenu « cool »

https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/d848eb49-2751-445d-84e9-905f9221b40d__7C___0.html

Global News BC: Links to B.C. town’s website ‘scrubbed’ from Facebook community groups: Mayor https://globalnews.ca/news/9939718/links-removed-facebook-princeton-bc/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #PrincetoncontentdisappearsFacebook #CanadiannewscontentbannedFacebook #CanadianContent #Facebooknewsban #princetonmayor #onlinenewsact #SpencerCoyne #Princeton #Politics #billc-18 #Facebook #Tech #C-18 #META #C18

#GAFAM : Imposons-leur une taxe au nombre de requêtes HTTP provenant du Canada. Ça, ça va être plus convaincant que #C18.

If #news are so important to the government of #Canada, maybe #telecom companies should pay online newspapers. Surely one reason Canadians pay for internet access is access to news websites.
#C18

I don't really know how I feel about C-18 because I do agree that tech giants should compensate all their content creators but this news ban is terrible and I don't expect it will end anytime soon... Finally subscribed to a couple newsletters (Tyee, Maple, Narwhal, Global) and hopefully that will help me keep up with some current events but I am not a fan of email newsletters 😂

#canada #bc #news #meta #google #fb #facebook #C18

#Canada #C18 #Media #News #Newspapers #Journalism #SocialMedia #BigTech #Google #Meta: "St-Onge may want to leave the impression that there is an easy out for the tech companies, yet the reality is those comments fundamentally misunderstand how Bill C-18 works. First, signing agreements does not result in an exemption from the law. Unlike the Australian law – which did grant the government the ability to grant an exemption under the law – the Canadian law does not adopt the same approach. So long as Google and Meta facilitate access to news content (ie. link to it), they will be treated as digital news intermediaries (DNIs) under the law and there is no available exemption. This means that the many rules in Bill C-18, including codes of conduct, disclosure requirements, rules governing the display of news content, etc. are likely all applicable to them regardless of the existence of negotiated agreements. Simply put, when St-Onge claims the companies would be exempt under the law based on agreements that could be signed over the coming months, she is wrong."

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/08/why-heritage-minister-pascale-st-onge-doesnt-seem-to-understand-how-bill-c-18-works/

#Canada #C18 #Media #News #Newspapers #Journalism #SocialMedia #BigTech #Google #Meta: "St-Onge may want to leave the impression that there is an easy out for the tech companies, yet the reality is those comments fundamentally misunderstand how Bill C-18 works. First, signing agreements does not result in an exemption from the law. Unlike the Australian law – which did grant the government the ability to grant an exemption under the law – the Canadian law does not adopt the same approach. So long as Google and Meta facilitate access to news content (ie. link to it), they will be treated as digital news intermediaries (DNIs) under the law and there is no available exemption. This means that the many rules in Bill C-18, including codes of conduct, disclosure requirements, rules governing the display of news content, etc. are likely all applicable to them regardless of the existence of negotiated agreements. Simply put, when St-Onge claims the companies would be exempt under the law based on agreements that could be signed over the coming months, she is wrong."

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/08/why-heritage-minister-pascale-st-onge-doesnt-seem-to-understand-how-bill-c-18-works/

@andrewporter There are many reasons to avoid Meta, and I do. But this one really is the fault auf Canadian lawmakers who passed a hairbrained #law #C18. #Meta is absolutely right to stop linking to paywalls in #Canada.

#Canada #C18 #Media #News #Journalism #BigTech #Google #Meta: "The Bill C-18 legislative process was marked by repeated warnings from the government that this was an urgent issue that justified its repeated efforts to cut off debate in order to fast track the bill into law before the summer break. In fact, in a late change, the bill was amended to provide that it would take effect with 180 days of royal assent, rather than the previously envisioned staged approach that would have resulted in a gradual development of regulations and implementation. That change has had enormous implications as the law can now take effect at any time but no later than December 19, 2023, which in turn led Meta to move to comply with the law immediately by blocking news links in Canada.

Notwithstanding the government’s plans, the CRTC apparently has other ideas. Yesterday it released its timeline for the development of the mandatory bargaining framework envisioned by the law. The proposed timeline has taken many by surprise as it suggests that mandatory bargaining may not begin until 2025. Given the bargaining process envisioned by the law (90 days to negotiate, 120 days for mediation, followed by arbitration), if the issue goes to arbitration it is unlikely that there will be any payments before 2026. Even if arbitration is avoided – Meta and Google would likely block all news links before that could happen – it will take at least 18 months for any agreements to be considered by the CRTC under the law."

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/08/what-urgency-crtc-says-it-will-take-years-for-bill-c-18-media-bargaining-to-begin/

“Feminine Resolution”. Needed as much in August 2023 as September 1812 (from the Lady’s Magazine). #womenshistory #Regency #C18 #ladysmag #periodicals

No surprise that a person who supported the governments horrible #c18 legislation and the online streaming act, also supports directly taking away users #fairdealing rights under #cooyright.

Sigh. This government is making all the wrong decisions and are getting support for it the whole way.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-canadas-new-culture-minister-will-have-to-tackle-tech-bullies-and/

#cdnpoli #CDNmedia #fairuse

#Canada #C18 #LinkTaxes #BigTech #News #Media #Journalism #Meta #Google #TargetedAds: "The link tax laws passed around the world have typically been justified on the grounds that companies such as Google and Meta are are using links drive traffic to news sites, but keeping any profits from advertising in the process. In other words, online advertising means Google and Meta have taken control of the online advertising that used to be the mainstay of news publishers.

As a previous PIA article explained, today’s advertising system is based on constant surveillance of site visitors, but Google and Meta retain most of the revenue. In other words, if C-18 aims to fix the publishing industry’s financial challenges, the solution isn’t introducing link taxes that don’t address the real problem. Instead, news publishers could move to context-based advertising, which respects the privacy of visitors, and doesn’t hand most of the ad revenue to intermediaries like Google and Meta."

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/canadas-new-c-18-link-tax-law/

@kboyd

https://mindly.social/@cazabon/110857550275035974

#C18 #hubris #tech #misunderstand #politicians

Meta doesn't control the Internet, no one company does. Let's not let them pretend they do.

Say you wanted to share a CTV news story - be creative. Instead of deep linking, write a short synopsis and say "check out the full story and others by This Journalist on CTVNews." It's an inconvenience sure, but it's changing user behaviour for the better and drives traffic to the source.

5/5 #Media #C18 #CdnPoli #Meta

We obviously can't just outright ban social media, so the start of a fix is education. Encourage people to take a breath and look outside their garden. Take in some of the greater context to the information they consume.

Meta's knee-jerk corporate bullying reaction to C18 can be a golden opportunity for educating users, changing behavior and loosening the grip of their cults.

4/5 #Media #C18 #CdnPoli #Meta

This is why, to those of us who take the time to look outside the boundaries of the walled garden, these people often just come off as nutters. They're actually not, but they've been weened on information that presents itself as much internally consistent to them as it is divorced from what we understand reality to be.

It's a cult.

3/5 #Media #C18 #CdnPoli #Meta