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[–] 312@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

(Not arguing with you, just with the concept of the bill)

Doesn’t the news outlet benefit from the traffic and clicks generated from that user engagement?

What’s the government’s rationale for social media platforms to subsidize media outlets monetarily in addition to driving people to their content?

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I would hope it's on the basis of the news sites not actually receiving any user engagement due to users summarizing the article and therefore allowing people to "read" it without reading it.

The other option is they want news companies to have their cake and eat it too. Apparently, that worked out for Australia though—albeit in an asinine and behind-closed-doors sort of way.

[–] Nomecks@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because most people don't click, they just read the summary of the article in their feed. They're claiming that aggregators don't share revenue from summarized articles.

[–] EhForumUser@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yet all the major news sites I checked provided Open Graph content.

In case you don't know, Open Graph was created by Facebook to give publishers control over what information is displayed on Facebook when a news resource is introduced into their system.

If you don't want Facebook to display that content, knowing it means you won't see the traffic, why explicitly provide and denote it for their use? Open Graph content isn't naturally occurring. These news companies are going out of their way to tell Facebook exactly what they want shown.

Is this simply a case of the top brass spending too much time in Ottawa and not enough time talking to the technical people?

[–] Phyrin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh no offense taken, I also don’t get it. Like you said, I think amounts to forcing private companies to subsidize an industry

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

What's the problem with private companies subsidizing an industry? They're taking advantage of our population to make money and often offshoring profits to avoid paying taxes.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

It's more about forcing private companies to pay for the use of other private companies work.

[–] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I do believe some Canadian industries should be subsidized by private interests because they're just selling our own resources back to us, and they should pay for the privilege (while still receiving some profits). Telecom, utilities, energy, farms over certain capacities etc.

News Probaby shouldn't be one. I'm more than happy with government funded news so long as its independent of government and held to a higher standard than "entertainment" like we have with our neighbours to the south. This forces private news to compete with a competent news source, and it's not like the business model for news has really changed by much, selling ad space next to information, or offering subscriptions is as old as information sharing.