The government could have limited Bill C-18 to links to news on "eligible news businesses." It didn’t do that. It covered all news outlets. So Meta blocks all news links.
Dr Geist do you think the Trudeau govt is seriously not going to amend this so no one in Canada can read news links from anywhere in the world on Facebook and Google? It seems insane. Re VPNs we thought would mean can see the news on Facebook if set to USA but it didn’t work. Facebook can still see from Canada somehow. What is going to happen when hits Google next?
Dr Geist do you think the Trudeau govt is seriously not going to amend this so no one in Canada can read news links from anywhere in the world on Facebook and Google? It seems insane. Re VPNs we thought would mean can see the news on Facebook if set to USA but it didn’t work. Facebook can still see from Canada somehow. What is going to happen when hits Google next?