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AB 886 (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov)

submitted 3 months ago by conditional_soup@lemm.ee to c/california@lemmy.world

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If you're like me, you've probably been bombarded with ads about how awful AB 886 is. You should know that AB 886 is an attempt to support local journalism by forcing large, for-profit platforms that share links to online local news articles, like Reddit, Xitter, Facebook, and Google, to pay money to those local news agencies for access to their work. The group behind the ads against AB886 is the CCIA, or the Computer & Communications Industry Association, which is a lobbying group whose membership includes such small, local journalism organizations as:

Google
Amazon
Facebook
Twitter
And many more

Here's their Wikipedia page if you're interested: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_%26_Communications_Industry_Association

So, predictably, this is down to huge for profit companies wanting to continue getting access to other people's work for free. If you're feeling like taking memes seriously and getting into fights with strangers, you might think about calling your assembly member and letting them know that the CCIA can go fuck themselves and to support AB886.

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[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm curious; this sounds a lot like the policies they tried in Canada. Won't the platforms just block link sharing like they did for Canadian publishers?

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Possibly. I'm not sure if the bill makes any attempt to prevent such a thing from happening. But that's not the line of attack being used. What they're saying is that AB 886 is a massive giveaway for global news agencies.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 3 months ago

It's not really the "global news agencies" that are suffering under free internet distribution of news.

It's the local news reporting that is being cut back to hardly anything that drives small communities to national news sources that destroy a local sense of community.

[–] pc486@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"This bill would prohibit a covered platform from retaliating against a digital journalism provider for asserting its rights under the act by refusing to access content" -- AB 886

This clause is an attempt to prevent these platforms from just blocking links to Californians and its news organizations.

It won't work. Forced speech has been regularly shot down in the courts for violating the first amendment.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Good point.

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m not like you I guess. I don’t see or hear any ads in general. This is usually the kind of thing I’d research when I get my ballot. If you follow the money it’s usually pretty easy to tell.

But in this case, I think it’s too little too late for local journalism.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, it's an assembly bill, so it wouldn't go to a ballot.

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, right. Well then I guess I’ll just see how much my representative likes corporate donations.