How exactly did our democracy manage, between 1867 and whenever the fuck Facebook came by?
If you can’t find the news without an algorithm you won’t understand it anyway and I don’t mind if don’t take part in any elections.
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.
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There’s been too many articles about how bad it is that Meta and Google are going to stop carrying news, and not nearly enough on how to find news without Meta and Google. And, really, C-18 kind of disincentivizes news sites bringing up alternatives since the point was to get news sites paid, and Meta’s and Google’s competitors won’t have to pay them.
