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That is FUCKING BULLSHIT.

This is called a "link tax". If you don't see the words "link tax" (or similar words) in an article describing this type of legislation, it's biased reporting.

This has been tried in a few places over time. The Government wants money for each click on a link to a news site.

What's particularly crazy about this is the fact that it is the opposite of how the internet works. If you are a news site (or any website for that matter) you desperately want news aggregators and search engines to provide links to your content.

The news aggregators, search engines etc. provide free traffic to your web site or app. You then make money because you display ads, get paid members, get patreon supporters, etc. That is how the internet works on a basic level.

Sometimes you even have to pay for traffic to your site: Google Adwords exists for sites that don't organically appear in search engines, and you pay Google to provide a link to you.

This legislation turns the search engine / web site relationship on its head. Instead of being thankful for getting a link from a major content provider, now websites are supposed to be paid in a sort of insane reverse anti-Adwords. Instead of being grateful for traffic, these websites now expect to be paid per-link and get free customers.

Using a pre-internet example, it's kind of like forcing the Yellow Pages to pay businesses for free advertising in their directory.

In fact it's so insane that Facebook just said fuck it we're not playing. We're not going to 1) provide you with free traffic 2) then pay you for the privilege?

Only a fucking government could concoct such a scheme.

It's actually worse than this. The government acts as a middle-man, news sites don't get the money directly per-link. It goes into a pool which is then doled out by government. You can imagine how wonderfully fair and legitimate and totally not-corrupt this will turn out to be in practice.

Basically whats going on here. You have to hunt for actual news on alternative websites

Canada is NOT a democracy.

This isn't quite correct. What happened is that Canada said social media sites likes Facebook have to now pay a fee to the original news content creator (typically those legacy media companies) when their content is posted to Facebook. Facebook said no way and instead banded Canadians from posting any link to a media site. Fucking hilarious actually. This means it makes it really hard to spread the government's and lame stream media propaganda around. They figured that 25% of all news was spread on Facebook in Canada and the establishment just shot themselves in the foot. This is actually a win.

Imagine the hell of living in a place where your government actively controls what news you can consume. Sounds pretty tyrannical.
I get pissed off living in the US a ton, but thank God I don't have to put up with the shit you folks in the North have to. You guys need to arrest and bring to trial that traitor you have as prime minister.

They're the most hated government Canada has ever had. The amount of anger they've created against themselves is unprecedented.

It was actually the greedy White liberals who asked to starve but just couldn't stop. Canadians should never have been polite to them. It increased their delusion that they were good people.