The Canadian government, in tandem with Big Media, has succeeded in its extortion scheme against Google -- to the tune of $100 million.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/google-online-news-act-1.7043330
This is a sickening capitulation by Google, which has increasingly shown both cowardice and contempt for the open-Internet values it once claimed to believe in.
I hope Facebook/Meta stays the course and refuses to capitulate.
Dan Gillmor /
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