It’s the corruption we have been talking about for years… How the Canadian media uses taxpayer dollars to coerce media into submission.
Canads recently passed Bill C-18 - the so-called “link tax”. It will force Google and Facebook to pay news purists for even linking to original source articles.
I could understand the rationale if Google and Facebook were displaying the articles, without linking directly to them, since this would be siphoning traffic and add revenue away from the original source. But a link tax to even redirect to the original source makes absolutely no sense - until one appreciate that it makes total sense.
Now the government has threatened to cut off ad spending on both Google and Facebook. Provincial government has followed suit.
It is the corruption we have been talking about. They did it with Covid. They do it with government propaganda at large. Coerce a financially impoverished media into promoting government narrative, or cut them off from both direct and indirect financial subsidies if they don’t.
The only difference is that Google and Facebook don’t need it, and Facebook is giving the government the middle finger on this.
Much to the government’s joy. Now, access to news is even more censored in Canada.
https://archive.ph/WCubk