Analysis | Canada's Online News Act may let Meta and Google decide the winners and losers in the media industry
The Online News act was modelled on Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code legislation that was the first to compel Meta and Google to pay for third-party news content on their sites.
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These bills have seemed to be doomed to fail from the beginning.
They're so full of unintended consequences, it's like they're written by a junior high political club.