Meta permanently ending news availability on its platforms in Canada now

No, Canadians can still view “news” from other outlets.  It is just that Canadians cannot view Canadian News Media on META.

We can still easily go to any new’s web site directly.  Be it CBC, Global news, BBC, MSN, TSN, CNN, etc.

And the Lib-tard gov is crying now…

Canada demands Meta lift ‘reckless’ ban on news to allow fires info to be shared

The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift … ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country.

Wildfires now, then all libtard propaganda/pay to allow it on your platform, next!

“Meta’s reckless choice to block news … is hurting access to vital information on Facebook and Instagram,” Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said in a social media post.

But if it is so vital, why not go DIRECTLY to the government sites for such news/updates.  Why go to a third party then?… because the gov can then TAX them for it!

Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez earlier said the ban meant people did not have access to crucial information.

Then go to the gov web sites.

If you can’t trust your local (city/town) to give you up to date alerts, if you can’t trust your local state/provincial/territorial gov to give you up to date alerts, if you can’t trust your national go to get you up to date alerts, what does that tell you?  To NOT trust government alerts? ! ?

Canadians can use Facebook and Instagram to access content from official government agencies, emergency services and non-governmental organizations, the spokesperson added.

So the people HAVE access to the organizations they need to.  Yet the libtard gov can’t tax private corporations on such “public” content.

Meta says users do not come to its platform for news and forcing the company to pay for content shared on its platforms is unsustainable for its business.

If I want news, news articles, I go DIRECTLY to the news sites, and read what is accessible without a subscription fee.  (There is enough ads on those pages to cover the costs to the originating source.)

And has it been that long ago where people were once proclaiming that “a private company can do what ever it wants” and now they want the opposite to FORCE a private company to do what they want now but not then?  HYPOCRITS!

Canadian media trained audiences to use Facebook. With Meta blocking news, what’s next?

Canadian news publishers haven’t given up hope that Meta will lift a ban on Canadian news, but in the meantime, they’re scrambling to draw audiences directly to them.

That is something they should have been doing all along… getting viewers to read their articles off their own website and get the ad revenue.

The law would — in the future — require companies like Meta and Google to pay media outlets for news content they share on their platforms.

What next?  Having social media site pay for you sharing your image?  Your story?

News organizations — including CBC/Radio-Canada — have also asked Canada’s Competition Bureau to investigate Meta’s decision to block Canadian news, calling it “anti-competitive.”

By forcing people to go to your actual websites, giving you the traffic, that is anti-competitive?

“We think there’s a workable solution,” said Paul Deegan, president and CEO of News Media Canada, which represents 570 news publishers across the country.

aka give us the MONEY!

“What we’re saying to Meta is, ‛The regulations aren’t drafted yet. Pick up a pen. Put down your saber and let’s try to work through this together.'”

Yet the threat of those regulations to forcibly TAX a company for “sharing/promoting” your business and you are not paying them, but want them to PAY for that previlege?

Audiences can still reach Canadian digital news directly — by going straight to news sites themselves, or using an app on mobile devices.

So people have to go to the actual website, the source of the news.  And that is Anti-Competitive?

But after years of Canadians and news publishers relying on Facebook to connect them, observers are wondering how — and if — the issue can be resolved.

Revoke the bill, and any attempt to TAX any company those members share/link to your website/articles.

Anything else, and the ban continues.

It is as simple as that.

And at a time when the legacy media is dying, they should be glad for any and all methods getting more people to see and view/read your articles.

“Canadians expect tech giants to follow the law and pay their fair share to support reliable, fact-based, independent news,” said Heritage Canada in a statement.

While crushing opinions and facts that don’t support your agenda/narrative?

Russian Dossier was a hoax that was know by many right at the story, but tech giants along with the governments claimed it was true, reliable, fact-based, etc. because it fit their agenda/narrative, and did NOT at any time was factual, true, honest, etc.

That argument is so wrong.

…the federal government plans to move forward with a Digital Service Tax (DST), as of January 1, 2024, if a global agreement is not reached, said Katherine Cuplinskas, press secretary to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.

Either agree to PAY us money, or we will pass a law to FORCE you to pay us money.  Either way, we WANT MONEY!  That is all I am hearing on the gov side.

If there’s a lesson in all of this, it’s that publishers shouldn’t depend on only one social media provider, said Deegan.

“Publishers have been going to where there’s a large audience,” he said. “Being overly reliant on a single channel is not sustainable.

“For publishers the clear choice they have to make is to build their own audience — driving traffic to themselves directly. And that’s already underway.”

And how did companies do that in the past?  By advertising!  By creating a product people want to get, in a form that they want.

Making your product (in this case a news website/app) that draws in traffic, and other companies would want to place ADS there, generating more revenue for you.

But no.  That would require investments and time on your part.

It would require YOU to be responsible for your OWN growth/revenue.

And now the LibTard gov has released its blackmail amount!

Online News Act could see Google, Meta pay combined $234 million to Canadian media

The federal government has put a price tag on what it would like to see Google and Facebook spend under an act requiring the tech giants to compensate media for news articles.

Federal officials estimate Google would need to offer $172 million and Facebook $62 million in compensation to satisfy criteria they’re proposing for exemptions under the Online News Act.

“Offer”?  “Compensation”?  More like a lifeline to kept the legacy media/agenda pushing woke journalists employed.

The formula is based on a tech company’s global revenues and Canada’s share of their global GDP. The government believes the calculation will deliver a contribution that is within 20 per cent of the earnings of full-time journalists working in a Canadian news organization.

20%  Do they then get to own 20% of those corporations too?

Google’s president of global affairs Kent Walker, meanwhile, has said the legislation “exposes us to uncapped financial liability” and claimed it’s being targeted just because it shows links to news, “something that everyone else does for free.”

But the libtard government can’t target everyone, so they target a corporation what they wanted to make easy money off of, IMO.

The government says 69 per cent of Canadians access news online but only 11 per cent pay for it.

Then that is a legacy media problems.  They already have paid-subscription services for some of their articles.  Maybe they should look at growing that FIRST, as well as the ad revenue their paid and free access articles generate.

…news outlets have seen their advertising revenues shrink, forcing layoffs, a loss of media coverage in small and rural communities and 474 closures of Canadian news businesses between 2008 and 2023.

Well, if you do not provide a service people want, you have to either adapt or face the consequences.

The legacy media is in its death throes, if you are only gonna be pushing an agenda/narrative over unbiased news reporting, all I can say is… DIE Already.  Learn to code/create apps/etc.