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Canadian government suspends advertising on Meta-owned platforms Facebook and Instagram
(nationalpost.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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Yeah, why should Google pay for something other people produced that Google is monetizing. It's just MADNESS when you come out and say it like that...
The trouble here is Canadian News outlets want their cake and eat it to.
The Canadian government on behalf of Canadian News outlets is telling social media platforms like Facebook/google/instagram/twitter/Lemmy? And search engines? that they cannot benefit over the hard work of Candian News outlets.
Where this is at play is when you see news on one of these social platforms that is summarized and posted directly on that social platform, (think your Google feed, Facebook wall, twitter feed) thus users do not need to go to the News Outlets website directly and generate add revenue for the News Outlets. This is the profit loss for the News outlets and why they are pushing/pushed for this.
Where the Canadian government and Canadian News Outlets are "overreaching" IMO is telling these social platforms that even direct links to the News Outlets Website are not allowed unless the social media sites and search engines pay for the link.
This means as a Internet user you will no longer see links or summarized Canadian articles anywhere on the web including your search engines. Unless you make a effort to go to the News site directly.
A little anecdotal here.
What I find bonkers is News outlets pay to have their newspapers sit in a convenience store, so that individuals can grab the paper, pay for it, and read it.
So by this similarly, though very simplistic, I would think of the social media platforms and serach engines as the "convince stores", and the requirements being that News Outlets should pay to display their links in said "stores". This way when users click on the links the news outlets get their add revenue on their site, thus the customer "pays" for the articles indirectly with shown adds.
This would mean Canadians still see Canadian News, and News outlets get their cut as it's only viewable on their new sites directly. Not summarized buy the social platforms.
Just my two cents.