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The Online News Act passed last Thursday and would force platforms like Google and Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, to strike deals with Canadian media publishers for sharing, previewing and directing users to online Canadian news content.

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[–] Etnies419@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From what I understand, it's not just linking to the article. It's when the news is summarized on Google, to the point where you learn everything you need right from the search page rather than clicking the link to the article. So the company that hosts the article is losing as revenue because people are just reading the summary and not looking at the article itself.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It does include just linking.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, news content is made available if

(a) the news content, or any portion of it, is reproduced; or

(b) access to the news content, or any portion of it, is facilitated by any means, including an index, aggregation or ranking of news content.

Indexing includes showing a basic result in search. Plus you can't show a normal search results without pulling at least a portion of the news content. I can only assume the author and those that voted for this have literally never searched for a news article online before.

[–] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 4 points 1 year ago

That's just a horrible decision all around. It's blatantly obvious that this will hurt the producers of the content far more than help. Why is it that the people making decisions about the internet always seem to have never used it?

[–] dango@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago

@Etnies419 no, if you read the article even linking requires payment. That's why they're removing results entirely, rather than just removing summaries like they did in other countries

But to the point, in those countries leaving the links but removing the summaries also resulted in significant reductions in traffic for the news orgs.

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