Posted on 06/22/2023 4:07:09 PM PDT by george76
With Bill C-18 on the verge of becoming law, Canadians could soon see news removed from their Facebook pages and Google searches..
OTTAWA — After the Senate passed the Online News Act Thursday, Meta confirmed it will remove news content from Facebook and Instagram for all Canadian users, but it remained unclear whether Google would follow suit for its platforms.
Article content The act, which was known as Bill C-18, is designed to force Google and Facebook to share revenues with publishers for news stories that appear on their platforms. By removing news altogether, companies would be exempt from the legislation.
“Today, we are confirming that news availability will be ended on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada prior to the Online News Act (Bill C-18) taking effect,” Facebook said
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“We have repeatedly shared that in order to comply with Bill C-18, passed today in Parliament, content from news outlets, including news publishers and broadcasters, will no longer be available to people accessing our platforms in Canada.”
Canadians could also see news content disappear from their Google searches if Google does the same.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
Trudeau wants Canadians to be like mushrooms , kept in the dark and fed $hit
The Globalist invasion was always just ahead of us in Canada. And they are working harder than ever to break the first Amendment in America.
We need to invade Canada and restore freedom, democracy and all that white stuff. /s
News must be first government approved. btw the People have no seat at the table of government
all that “bill” does is permit Meta to quit faking otherwise...allows it to take of its mask as the next Pravda or Izvestia...
I don’t read news on Facebook. It should be interesting for Canada’s newspapers who have facebook pages.
I imagine the prairie provinces would like to join the US, Eastern Canada can be its own little dictatorship.
I guess that MicroSoft gets a pass since they own or control most news stories now. MSN MSNBC etc.
My father in law thinks Rachel Madcow is the only news source worth watching so it is all good. What a dufus.
Now I know why my account was restricted
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