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Meta & Google shouldn't be allowed to bully their way out of paying for news
Journalism has been nearly destroyed by Google and Facebook stealing news — and they should not be allowed to use threats to escape regulation demanding that they pay for profiting from it. Canadian lawmakers are debating whether to charge online platforms for news they post, but Meta says it won't pay a dime — and Google is already looking at just blocking news in the country.
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Stealing news? Utter rubbish. Newspapers have been killed by the internet. Newspapers have always been primarily vehicles that sell ads with a little news thrown in to get you to buy them. Bundling just doesn't work in the internet age. What is killing newspapers is internet advertising. Many companies publishing directly. Getting the government to tax the organisations sending readers to news sites could well end up making the situation of news sites worse.