And what will you do if Canada doesn't play ball, Facebook?:
Representatives of Facebook Canada warned Ottawa against the hasty introduction of rules that would force social media giants to pay for news content shared on their platforms, after Australia took an overly “loud and aggressive” tack on the same issue. ...
“I was personally a bit troubled that those conversations had not happened before we heard very loud and aggressive commentary about us stealing content — which was false,” Chan said. “And I think that if we had had conversations, and productive ones, earlier, if we had actually talked to each other, we probably would be in a much better situation than we are today.”
His comments come as Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault has signalled an intention to introduce similar rules in Canada. France has also promised similar policies, which call on web giants like Facebook and Google to pay publishers for the content shared or curated on their platforms.
Facebook has called the new rules unworkable, and has threatened to pull its news service in retaliation. Google also disputes the regulations, and on Jan. 22 threatened to withdraw its search engine service in Australia.
Guilbeault was the first to testify during a new study of the relationship between Facebook and the federal government by the Canadian Heritage committee, as requested by the NDP.
The issue is of concern to opposition parties as Heritage Canada is currently co-leading efforts to create new legislation that will regulate a host of web companies’ activities (such as Facebook’s), including managing online hate speech and taxing their digital products and services.
It sounds like two censorious parties trying to justify their online tyranny but then butting heads when neither can make a profit.
Actually, that's exactly what it is.
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