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Canadian government suspends advertising on Meta-owned platforms Facebook and Instagram
(nationalpost.com)
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Yeah this is the problem with basing everything on ideology. Economic realities shift and suddenly someone's ideological stance on being against taxing links becomes support for oligopolistic billionaires avoiding paying taxes.
Ideally the Facebooks and the Googles of the world would just be broken up using anti-trust laws. But since they're US companies, the Government of Canada doesn't have the ability to do this. They have too much control over information and all that can be done about it within Canada is to tax them. Redistribute some of the money they make from their information control to others.
It's sad that they've managed to use their control over information to convince people that it's wrong for them to have to pay taxes.