Journalists and news consumers can exhale. Canadian news will not be blocked on Google, at least not any time soon. But another digital giant, Mark Zuckerberg’s $840-billion Meta, remains defiant in stripping Canadian news from its Facebook and Instagram.

That’s where we are on this, the day the contentious Online News Act comes into effect. How did we get here and what lies ahead?

  • IninewCrow
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    1 year ago

    This is hilarious … government won’t control or regulate social media because they don’t provide the news

    Yet everyone suffers from lack of news delivery because it’s all being delivered by social media companies

    Everyone keeps dancing around the question of Social Media yet no one wants to address the elephant in the room … the elephant that is blocking out the sun, the sky, ate our lunch and just shat on the table

    Social media is our modern day newspaper … regulate it like a newspaper, or a magazine, or a cable television provider

    How would everyone feel if they knew there were only two major newspapers in the country, two daily newspapers that everyone used to publish and push all their content, advertising and user contributions, only two daily papers that held all the information that everyone in the country read