The federal government says its willingness to speak with Meta about the possibility of seeing online news return to Facebook is part of an ongoing conversation Canada is having with the United States as the review of CUSMA nears.
“The door has always been open on our government’s side to discuss these issues. We’ve been having regular discussions with platforms since the Online News Act was developed. This is nothing new,” said Hermine Landry, press secretary to Culture Minister Mark Miller.
The Online News Act, which became law in 2023, requires tech giants like Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms.
How about we don’t and call it a day. Them tomorrow we bring back the digital services tax. We can take that tax money to create a Canadian EV company after buying US Canadian based auto plants for pennies on the dollar as the yanks shut them down and we expropriate them and life becomes better for everyone quickly.
Maybe I don’t understand all the variables and factors at play, but it seems counterproductive to deal with Meta for any reason, about anything, and that Canadians are better off finding their news on platforms not controlled by US algorithms.
Bad idea. Negotiating with Meta is Negotiating with Nazi enablers. Just for that we should ban them
The sooner people get off Meta platforms, the better. Like many of us, I’ve had to keep my Facebook and Instagram accounts because it’s the only way I can contact some people and it fucking sucks; they won’t email, or use a messenger like Signal or Telegram, or even SMS. As someone who saw firsthand the rather quick implosion of multiple early social media sites, like MySpace, it is bloody annoying how Meta not only won’t die, but is still popular. The lack of news sharing on Facebook did, however, get a few people I know to branch out from the Meta bubble so, anecdotally, I don’t think it’s wise negotiating to make Facebook more usable.
This would be a terrible concession to a corporation that produces AI agents that drive teenagers to suicide. There are people in the government that still believe that the best way to deal with Trump and his corporate associates is to appease them. The evidence is clear that this assumption is horribly misguided.
How about not
Guess what I have a few dead facebook accounts, my main one and my dunning Kruger account to troll antivaxers, the fact that they are just sitting there not being used it does not look good to advertisers to see dead accounts.
