Hopefully people can still share links to interesting things & discuss them. I don't know how under threat that is, but governments are playing with fire here. The right to cite something feels absolute.
The way sites have previews seems more nebulous, but ultimately it just helps drive traffic.
I don't use either service, but I find this insane. If a third world country controlled what media it's citizens could see, people would be up in arms (figuratively, sadly).
Somehow commonwealth countries trample rights all over the place, and we all just pretend it isn't happening.
Btw this is because Canada's government is in the pocket of it's media oligopoly. The crtc exists to prevent competition for incumbents. Canada's basically a banana republic, I guess it always was.
Edit: there are lots of examples of people criticizing twitter for caving to Turkey's request to block them. Somehow people ignore it when it happens in countries that pretend to be "free".
> 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.
The bill is to make these websites share revenues with the source of the information. Not to stop people from getting news. It's Facebook who has a problem here.
The way sites have previews seems more nebulous, but ultimately it just helps drive traffic.