Sam (crazy candle person) ✦
@samantha
the Canadian government is trying to add a “link tax” to meta and google and now they’re censoring all journalism in Canada lmao https://blog.google/intl/en-ca/company-news/outreach-initiatives/an-update-on-canadas-bill-c-18-and-our-search-and-news-products/amp/
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@cosmicblend
the history of the bill started with many connected cdn legacy media businesses lobbying the government. it was cdn media that pushed this tariff the idea being that money collected gets pooled and split out to many publishers (based on x conditions). not sticking up for gov but this was driven by cdn media groups
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Sam (crazy candle person) ✦
@samantha
idek what to say I feel like that’s even worse than I originally thought
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@cosmicblend
it is in my view. i spent many years around this discussion and could ramble a bunch on it. many publishers and journalists believe platforms broke the model by taking their distribution but they ignore how willingly they chased cpm revs among other mistakes…
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@cosmicblend
there are points to be made on the media insurance and liability side, but none strong enough to offset my belief that most media gave up its readers' trust (regardless of ideology) to chase automated header bidding, trade desks, and clicks to fill the promoted content deliverables
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maurelian
@maurelian.eth
How does the link tax work exactly? Like how is the price set?
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Sam (crazy candle person) ✦
@samantha
Meta and goog have to negotiate with each media co to see how much tax they have to pay Here is the official bill if you want the deets https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c18_1.html
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