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What even is the "intimidation"? FB and Google threatening to stop hosting news in Canada? I thought that was literally the intended effect of the law. How is it intimidation?
It's like if you made playing hopscotch illegal and then people were like "If you don't change that law back, we won't play hopscotch anymore. Then you'll be sorry!" That's literally the point my dudes.
The intended effect was to create a revenue stream for traditional media players, so saying "our way or we're out" is, in fact, an attempt to coerce the outcome they want.
tbh I'm kind of hoping fb and google stick to their guns if only so that it solidifies their reputation as a source only for misinformation.
The problem is, they will still distribute foxnews and every nonCanadian news.
Which will replace everything they are removing ATM.