"New Zealand is far, far too small to bring the likes of Netflix, Google and Facebook to heel. California for example, is said to be the fifth largest economy in the world. Yet Meta and Google are threatening to cut off news items (and searches) about California if the state proceeds with... legislation [that] would require the social media giants to pay a “journalism useage fee” for linking to news sites based in California."
Newspaper publishers’ obsession with link and snippet taxes is bad for society – and bad for them
Traditional newspapers have been complaining about the rise of the digital world for decades. Their discontent derives from the fact that they failed to recognise opportunities early on, leaving the field open for a new generation of born-digital companies to meet the demand for alternative ways to access the news. Rather than trying to understand the dynamics of the …
Die Digitalisierung und das Internet haben die Bindung von Information an physische Medien vollständig eliminiert. Die Umwandlung von Text, Musik und Video in eine lange Reihe von Bits und Bytes macht es ungeheuer einfach und kostengünstig diese unendlich oft zu kopieren was die medienbasierte Verwertungskette faktisch weitgehend überflüssig macht.
Die kostengünstige Produktion von potentiell massiver Reichweite stellt eine ungeheure Demokratisierung des Kommunikation dar, niemals zuvor was es für die sprichwörtliche kleine Frau/den kleinen Mann, so einfach, die Öffentlichkeit zu erreichen.
Was natürlich auch seine Schattenseiten hat, denn die alten Gatekeeper haben auch manchen Dreck ferngehalten. Allerdings gab ihnen dies auch beträchtliche Macht, Meinungen und gar Fakten zu unterdrücken.
Das ist heute schwieriger, wenn man z. B. den Unsinn den ein Herr Hanfeld zum Thema #Leistungsschutzrecht#Linktax in der FAZ schreibt widerlegen möchte, reicht eine
But the problem is that regulations can only do much. As I wrote months ago, “there are no regulations to be discussed that change the core elements of the law. It’s been decided, has received royal assent, and kicks in anytime within the next 120 days.” Indeed, Google’s response identifies numerous changes to the law itself. Those changes are far more extensive and include removing links as a source of mandated payments (replaced by “displaying news content”), restoration of copyright limitations and exceptions (ie. fair dealing applies), removing broadcasters such as the CBC from the scope of the law by using the government’s own Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization standard, and adjusting the rules on what is considered news content (alpha-numeric text), exemption criteria, and the definitions around digital news intermediaries. Further, it wants to ensure it can elevate high quality news and demote low quality sources in search results and seeks a more balanced approach to arbitration.
These are significant changes that go to the heart of the problem with the law. Even if there was an openness to reform, they would need to be implemented before December 19th. That seems very unlikely given that the government has shown little interest in changes, which suggests that tinkering with the regulation may be insufficient to address a deeply flawed bill. In other words, the biggest problem with Bill C-18 isn’t the regulations, it is Bill C-18."
Andrew Coyne very clearly articulates why the Canadian goverment's #C11#LinkTax and #C18 internet #CanCon bills are actively harmful to Canadians and our access to #journalism and the #internet generally. Certainly we have challenges to face on these issues, but a good start would be not making things worse with misguided and heavy-handed regulations
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So the problem is that Facebook and Google scrape news articles and don't compensate the news companies that author them, a violation of Copyright and the very definition of theft. The #LinkTax needs to be more narrowly targeted to go after this violation of law.
#Canada#C18#META#SocialMedia#LinkTax#Journalism#Media#BigNews#BigTech#Newspapers: "The claims associated with the government’s regulation making process have been vastly overstated. Indeed, if it was the platforms making the claims, they would probably be called disinformation. About the only regulation that really matters right now involves Section 11, since it sets the criteria for an exemption from arbitration and approval of the deals between platforms and media companies. The reports about Google and the government negotiating aspects of the law surely involves what the exemption criteria is and how it will be interpreted. For example, the inclusion of a minimum spend by way of regulation would provide cost certainty and effectively have the government dictate to the CRTC how the criteria should be interpreted (namely, ignore them all if Google meets the spending target). The remainder are minor and have no real impact on how the law will be applied to Meta or Google.
When News Media Canada says “what we’re saying to Meta is, ‛The regulations aren’t drafted yet. Pick up a pen. Put down your saber and let’s try to work through this together” it’s a fake out designed to deceive. There are no regulations to be discussed that change the core elements of the law. It’s been decided, has received royal assent, and kicks in anytime within the next 120 days. News Media Canada and the associated lobby groups won the battle for Bill C-18. It’s the resulting consequences they don’t like."
RT @fagstein: I notice people on Facebook have taken to taking screenshots of news stories to share them.
So a law meant to ensure Facebook compensates news for sharing content without permission has instead caused Facebook's users to do exactly that while cutting traffic to news sites.
One of the hilarious things going on is that the big capital-owned news companies in Canada decided that they wanted some of Facebook's money.
So they bribed the Canadian politicians into writing a copyright law which requires that anyone who links to the big capital-owned news companies pay those big capital-owned media conglomerates money for every link.
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Obviously Facebook then just stopped allowing their users to do that, because they don't even want their users to leave Facebook and go to news company websites anyway. It's the users that wanted to be able to link like that.
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For reasons not unrelated to the corporate/capital capture of law and sovereignty, all of Canada is in fire.
People are trying to tell their friends on Facebook about how they have to immediately leave the town because it's going to burn down and they are all going to die.
But they are trying to do so by linking to the local capital-owned news media conglomerate's web-pages.
But doing that isn't allowed any more because, the news media conglomerates demand payment for that sort of thing, backed up by genuinely paid-for "democratic" bribery to the Canadian political parties.
😆 🤣 And now.. And now..🤣 😆
The Canadian government is today demanding that Facebook allow the linking even though it's the Canadian government's laws that tax and so forbid it.
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This timeline is so fucking cursed. I really hate it when Facebook is right.
Though I do hate it more when people are all burning.
The entire city of #Yellowknife is being evacuated. This is unprecedented and terrifying.
And thousands of citizens aren’t aware because Meta continues to block news in the country.
This is what happens when citizens are convinced to use an American multinational corporation as their community’s primary communications channel — a corporation that couldn’t give two shits about anything except its “fiduciary duty” to shareholders.
So Facebook and Google had a choice: they could continue to do this, and pay for the privilege, or they could stop linking to it. There was no third option.
We forced the choice on them; blame our #politicians.
Hear, hear. Exactly; it's a link tax. And financially, it makes no sense to pretty much anyone, so the companies choosing not to pay to link was both predictable, and in fact predicted by many, many people - pretty much everyone except members of the Canadian #dinosaur#media, #politicians, and anti-capitalism #zealots.