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@SheDrivesMobility

Grundsätzlich lobenswert wenn auch #Qwant teilweise im Eigentum von #HaltdieFresseSpringerPresse ist und sich beim #Leistungsschutzrecht #LinkTax nicht mit Rum bekleckert hat (weil sie die wahnwitzigen Forderungen der Verlagslobby zumindest teilweise bezahlen).

Insoweit ist Qwant ein Hostile Actor gegenüber den Interessen der Internetnutzerinnen und Internetnutzer und als solcher unwürdig, zur Nutzung in Erwägung gezogen zu werden.

@SheDrivesMobility

Grundsätzlich lobenswert wenn auch #Qwant teilweise im Eigentum von #HaltdieFresseSpringerPresse ist und sich beim #Leistungsschutzrecht #LinkTax nicht mit Rum bekleckert hat (weil sie die wahnwitzigen Forderungen der Verlagslobby zumindest teilweise bezahlen).

Insoweit ist Qwant ein Hostile Actor gegenüber den Interessen der Internetnutzerinnen und Internetnutzer und als solcher unwürdig, zur Nutzung in Erwägung gezogen zu werden.

Australia Pushes for Existence Tax to Cover Up Failed Link Tax

Australia was completely humiliated when their link tax law went down in flames. Now, they are taxing Meta as compensation.

https://www.freezenet.ca/australia-pushes-for-existence-tax-to-cover-up-failed-link-tax/

#Business #Copyright #News #Australia #Facebook #LinkTax #Meta #tax

Australia Pushes for Existence Tax to Cover Up Failed Link Tax

Australia was completely humiliated when their link tax law went down in flames. Now, they are taxing Meta as compensation.

https://www.freezenet.ca/australia-pushes-for-existence-tax-to-cover-up-failed-link-tax/

#Business #Copyright #News #Australia #Facebook #LinkTax #Meta #tax

Online News Act Golden Era: Rogers Slashes 10,000 Jobs

The supposed golden era of the Online News Act is continuing with Rogers slashing 10,000 employees.

https://www.freezenet.ca/online-news-act-golden-era-rogers-slashes-10000-jobs/

#Business #News #BillC18 #Canada #layoffs #LinkTax #OnlineNewsAct #Rogers

Online News Act Golden Era: Rogers Slashes 10,000 Jobs

The supposed golden era of the Online News Act is continuing with Rogers slashing 10,000 employees.

https://www.freezenet.ca/online-news-act-golden-era-rogers-slashes-10000-jobs/

#Business #News #BillC18 #Canada #layoffs #LinkTax #OnlineNewsAct #Rogers

Walled Culture the book, three years on

Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) was launched just over three years ago. A few weeks afterwards, I talked with journalist and editor Maria Bustillos about the book and its background, as part of the Internet Archive’s Book Talk series. That interview has just been added to the Future Knowledge Podcast series in a shortened form, so this seems like a good moment to […]

#agcom #analogue #browsers #canada #cdn #collectiveLicensing #copyrightTerm #diamondOpenAccess #digital #digitalViolence #dns #ebooks #enforcement #eu #euCopyrightDirective #films #france #genai #generativeAi #germany #google #hostageWorks #humanRights #InternetArchive #interview #italy #levy #licensing #linkTax #MarrakeshTreaty #newspapers #openAccess #openai #piracyShield #podcast #portugal #publicDomain #publishers #routers #spain #streaming #tax #transparency #trueFans #tv #uk #uploadFilters #videoGames #vpn

https://walledculture.org/walled-culture-the-book-three-years-on/

Walled Culture the book, three years on

Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) was launched just over three years ago. A few weeks afterwards, I talked with journalist and editor Maria Bustillos about the book and its background, as part of the Internet Archive’s Book Talk series. That interview has just been added to the Future Knowledge Podcast series in a shortened form, so this seems like a good moment to […]

#agcom #analogue #browsers #canada #cdn #collectiveLicensing #copyrightTerm #diamondOpenAccess #digital #digitalViolence #dns #ebooks #enforcement #eu #euCopyrightDirective #films #france #genai #generativeAi #germany #google #hostageWorks #humanRights #InternetArchive #interview #italy #levy #licensing #linkTax #MarrakeshTreaty #newspapers #openAccess #openai #piracyShield #podcast #portugal #publicDomain #publishers #routers #spain #streaming #tax #transparency #trueFans #tv #uk #uploadFilters #videoGames #vpn

https://walledculture.org/walled-culture-the-book-three-years-on/

Speaking of unprincipled media laws that produce totally predictable unintended consequences ...

Duncan and guest Tim Burrowes (ABC MediaLand) also discuss the fate of the Oz government's attempts to impose a link tax on DataFarmers. Which went wrong in all the ways tech activists warned about, and more;

https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-12-2025/the-fold-australias-big-tech-revolution-rolls-on

(1/?)

#TechRegulation #LinkTax #DigitalAdTax #TimBurrowes

Speaking of unprincipled media laws that produce totally predictable unintended consequences ...

Duncan and guest Tim Burrowes (ABC MediaLand) also discuss the fate of the Oz government's attempts to impose a link tax on DataFarmers. Which went wrong in all the ways tech activists warned about, and more;

https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/02-12-2025/the-fold-australias-big-tech-revolution-rolls-on

(1/?)

#TechRegulation #LinkTax #DigitalAdTax #TimBurrowes

Schon das #Uploadfilter und #Leistungsschutzrecht #Linktax Debakel hat dem eh schwachen europäischen Digitalstandort schweren Schaden zugefügt... die #Chatkontrolle würde ihm wahrscheinlich den Rest geben.

#ChatkontrolleStoppen

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/eu-ueberwachungsplaene-in-der-kritik-wirtschaftsverbaende-bitkom-und-eco-klar-gegen-chatkontrolle/

@titaniumbiscuit @SchreibeEinfach

#Uploadfilter wurden eingeführt mit vielen der negativen Effekte von denen die Leute mit Ahnung vorab intensiv gewarnt hatten.

Übrigens hat #YouTube - wohl wissend das die neuen Haftungsregeln jeglicher kleineren europäischen Konkurrenz schwer zu schaffen machen werden - kurz nach der Entscheidung die Zwangswerbung + Anreiz zum Abo massiv ausgebaut und damit seine Einnahmen nocheinmal deutlich gesteigert. Bei gleichzeitiger Verschlechterung der Nutzererfahrung.. aber die haben ja kaum noch eine Wahl, den nur die größten aller Plattformen können diese idiotischen Haftungsregeln ohne größere Probleme stemmen.

Das #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax hat auch - wie vorhergesagt - nicht wirklich funktioniert, da es von völlig falschen Voraussetzungen ausgeht.

Alles in allem war die Reform für Nutzer schlecht, für viele Urheber schlecht, für den Wirtschaftstandort schlecht aber sie war gut für ein paar große Verwertungsgesellschaften und Digitalkonzerne.

EPIC FAIL😒

Mark Carney Mulling Rescinding the Online News Act

The Online News Act has been widely considered a complete and total failure. It seems rescinding it is a possibility.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mark-carney-mulling-rescinding-the-online-news-act/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #LinkTax #MarkCarney #OnlineNewsAct #US

Mark Carney Mulling Rescinding the Online News Act

The Online News Act has been widely considered a complete and total failure. It seems rescinding it is a possibility.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mark-carney-mulling-rescinding-the-online-news-act/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #LinkTax #MarkCarney #OnlineNewsAct #US

@pneutig

Wir alle wünschen uns mehr europäische Digitalunternehmen... aber zur Wahrheit gehört auch, dass unsere Politik seit Jahren alles falsch macht, was man falsch machen kann. Von #Uploadfiltern über #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax zur #Chatkontrolle und #Vorratsdatenspeicherung .

Nie geht es um die Interessen der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer... sondern immer um die Interessen anderer.

So wird das nix.

Eine Altersbeschränkung für das Internet ist weder sinnvoll noch mit Freiheitsrechten zu vereinbaren. Es obliegt den Erziehungsberechtigten dafür Sorge zu tragen.

Liberal MP Calls for Online News Act to Be Scrapped

I've long said the Online News Act needs to be scrapped. Now, I'm learning that at least one Liberal MP agrees with me now.

https://www.freezenet.ca/liberal-mp-calls-for-online-news-act-to-be-scrapped/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #Kelowna #Liberal #LinkTax #MP #OnlineNewsAct #StephenFuhr

Liberal MP Calls for Online News Act to Be Scrapped

I've long said the Online News Act needs to be scrapped. Now, I'm learning that at least one Liberal MP agrees with me now.

https://www.freezenet.ca/liberal-mp-calls-for-online-news-act-to-be-scrapped/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #Kelowna #Liberal #LinkTax #MP #OnlineNewsAct #StephenFuhr

@wolf480pl @1br0wn @jmaris I totally share your frustration about having fight bad proposals like #ChatControl, #EUProtect, and #LinkTax over and over. I do this for a living. 🫣

But consider this: how do we know that those bad proposals are unpopular? People keep on voting for far-right, conservative, and economically liberal majorities both nationally and in EU elections. The result is people in power who support mass surveillance and other rights-crushing policies.

I don't think most...

@wolf480pl @1br0wn @jmaris I totally share your frustration about having fight bad proposals like #ChatControl, #EUProtect, and #LinkTax over and over. I do this for a living. 🫣

But consider this: how do we know that those bad proposals are unpopular? People keep on voting for far-right, conservative, and economically liberal majorities both nationally and in EU elections. The result is people in power who support mass surveillance and other rights-crushing policies.

I don't think most...

Yes, let’s “Make it Fair” – by recognising that copyright has failed to reward creators properly

A few weeks ago, the UK’s regional and national daily news titles ran similar front covers, exhorting the government there to “Make it Fair”. The campaign Web site explained:

Tech companies use creative content, such as news articles, books, music, film, photography, visual art, and all kinds of creative work, to train their generative AI models.

Publishers and creators say that doing […]

#creators #dailies #euCopyrightDirective #generativeAi #journalists #linkTax #newspapers #optOut #publishers #ratchet #snippetTax #sustainability #tax #theft #training #uk

https://walledculture.org/yes-lets-make-it-fair-by-recognising-that-copyright-has-failed-to-reward-creators-properly/

@stroughtonsmith

PS: As a IT guy, you should also understand, that actually cutting off an internet service that has millions of users that WANT to access it, it going to be very difficult.

Even more so, as few credible european alternatives exist, a fact not helped by europe caring more about legacy media companies than user rights which would be one of its few selling points. (Just remember the #uploadfilter and #linktax debacle.)

Europe dont see users as people having rights... it sees users as something that should be milked without rights from european companies instead of US ones. 😒

The #EuropeanUnion and the goverments of the member states have done very little in the last 2 decades that benefits me as an internet user but have done lot of things that violate my interests in multiple ways.

So I trust them even less than just the - wise - distrust anyone should have about even a democratically elected goverment.

@AssociatedPress @business-and-finance-AssociatedPress

The very idea of a #linktax /publishers right is incredible stupid and unjustified.

Digital platforms are perfectly right to deny legacy media paymemt for something that legacy media benefits from far more than the other way arround.

The internet does not need legacy media, but legacy media needs the internet. With this basic fact out of the way, it is painfully obvious who should pay whom - if at all.

We made a similar mistake in Europe with the idiotic copyright reform of 2019. It achieved absolutly nothing besides making life more miserable for every european internet user and further reducing the already weak european digital economy.

European search engines - that cannot afford years of litigation from greedy legacy media - now pay for news while Google - who can afford any law suit while legacy media cannot afford to be not listed on google - does not.

The idea is idiotic and should be trashed.

@Witteg @tagesschau

Und das ist - neben der zweifelhaften grundsätzlichen Sinnhaftigkeit - auch einer der Gründe warum ich alles derartige strikt ablehne. Denn einmal eingeführt, ist der Weg zu einer Ausweispflicht für alle nur noch sehr kurz. Du musst beweisen dass du Ü16 bist..... bei der Gelegenheit protokollieren wir gleichnochmal alle Daten die wir jetzt eh schon haben. Für später..... irgendeinen Nutzen finden wir schon.... und sei es der Verkauf an den Höchstbietenden.

Zwar mag so eine #Klarnamenpflicht manchen attraktiv erschienen, macht sie es doch - theoretisch - einfacher Hassposter zu identifizieren, allerdings ist der Preis dafür durchaus hoch.... auch viele vernünftige Stimmen würden damit verstimmen.

Australians "Springer Konzern" die Murdoch Medien Gruppe hat übrigens ähnlich wie für den #LinkTax auch hier massiv für das Gesetz lobbyiert. Hautpsächlich weil man sich damit über Umwege mehr Epressungsmaterial gegenüber BigTech und natürlich auch einen Gewinn an eigener Reichweite erhofft.

Genauso wie bei #Uploadfiltern und #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax werden #niemehrcdu und #NieMehrSPD natürlich auch hier schon bald wieder eine Entscheidung gegen den gesunden Menschenverstand und gegen die Interessen der Bevölkerung treffen.

https://www.golem.de/news/zpue-vs-clouddienstleister-gerichtliches-nein-zur-privatkopie-abgabe-2410-189942.html

Freut Euch schon mal darauf, für Eure Urlaubsfotos in der Cloud Abgaben zahlen zu müssen.

Genauso wie bei #Uploadfiltern und #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax werden #niemehrcdu und #NieMehrSPD natürlich auch hier schon bald wieder eine Entscheidung gegen den gesunden Menschenverstand und gegen die Interessen der Bevölkerung treffen.

https://www.golem.de/news/zpue-vs-clouddienstleister-gerichtliches-nein-zur-privatkopie-abgabe-2410-189942.html

Freut Euch schon mal darauf, für Eure Urlaubsfotos in der Cloud Abgaben zahlen zu müssen.

Ieri sera mi è capitato di sentire in radio Gasparri sostenere la #LinkTax quale garanzia dell'indipendenza dell'informazione. Val la pena ricordare perché è una pessima idea.

"Saving the News From Big Tech" ➡️ https://mastodon.cisti.org/@roughconsensusandrunningcode/110390636700711895

Ieri sera mi è capitato di sentire in radio Gasparri sostenere la #LinkTax quale garanzia dell'indipendenza dell'informazione. Val la pena ricordare perché è una pessima idea.

"Saving the News From Big Tech" ➡️ https://mastodon.cisti.org/@roughconsensusandrunningcode/110390636700711895

Mainstream Media Calls on Meta to Give Them Free Money

Following the CRTC approval of Google's Online News Act Exemption, the mainstream media demanded Meta to do the same thing.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-calls-on-meta-to-give-them-free-money/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #CRTC #Facebook #Google #LinkTax #Media #Meta #OnlineNewsAct

Mainstream Media Calls on Meta to Give Them Free Money

Following the CRTC approval of Google's Online News Act Exemption, the mainstream media demanded Meta to do the same thing.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-calls-on-meta-to-give-them-free-money/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #CRTC #Facebook #Google #LinkTax #Media #Meta #OnlineNewsAct

@jmaris The individual author or publisher has near-zero bargaining power, no matter how important they are culturally, because their individual presence makes zero difference to Facebook's profits. Entire genres and sectors can be removed with zero effect on Facebook's bottom line, as shown by the #LinkTax fights.

Only collective action by all authors together would change this, but a global union doesn't seem likely. I suggest a compulsory license/income tax to fund education and libraries.

@jmaris The individual author or publisher has near-zero bargaining power, no matter how important they are culturally, because their individual presence makes zero difference to Facebook's profits. Entire genres and sectors can be removed with zero effect on Facebook's bottom line, as shown by the #LinkTax fights.

Only collective action by all authors together would change this, but a global union doesn't seem likely. I suggest a compulsory license/income tax to fund education and libraries.

@lobbyctrl_tech

While I am all for more european sovereignty, I honestly have major doubts that a european actor would serve my interests as a user better than big tech.

Europes track record regarding user rights is mostly dissapointing. European politicians have made my digital life only worse in the last 20 years with #Uploadfilters, #LinkTax, forcing legay copyright rules onto the digital age and cannot be trusted with protecting users rights and privacy at all.

I have no interest in any european digital company gaining any significant market share, until it proves beyond doubt that it can be trusted more with my rights as a user than american big tech. Which to date, it has not.

I want the freedom to choose the digital companies that serve me and I will not tolerate buying/using a worse product, just because it is made in Europe.

Juicy licensing deals with AI companies show that publishers don’t really care about creators

One of the many interesting aspects of the current enthusiasm for generative AI is the way that it has electrified the formerly rather sleepy world of copyright. Where before publishers thought they had successfully locked down more or less everything digital with copyright, they now find themselves confronted with deep-pocketed companies – both established ones like Google and Microsoft, […]

#academicPublishers #authors #creators #genai #generativeAi #google #licensing #linkTax #microsoft #newspaperPublishers #openai #publishers #taylorFrancis #training #wiley

https://walledculture.org/juicy-licensing-deals-with-ai-companies-show-that-publishers-dont-really-care-about-creators/

One common myth in the #linktax debate is that digital services have “siphoned off” revenue from publication websites. Queensland University of Technology's Axel Bruns discusses why this is not the case here: https://buff.ly/4dh6keZ #MediaInnovation #Journalism

The #linktax’s failure to deliver meaningful benefits is a lesson for the #copyright industry - https://walledculture.org/the-link-taxs-failure-to-deliver-meaningful-benefits-is-a-lesson-for-the-copyright-industry/ one that it will doubtless refuse to learn....

The #linktax’s failure to deliver meaningful benefits is a lesson for the #copyright industry - https://walledculture.org/the-link-taxs-failure-to-deliver-meaningful-benefits-is-a-lesson-for-the-copyright-industry/ one that it will doubtless refuse to learn....

The link tax’s failure to deliver meaningful benefits is a lesson for the copyright industry

It seems so long ago that people were trying to stop the worst aspects of the EU Copyright Directive. It was quite a battle, as Chapter 6 of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) recounts in detail. The final legislation was passed in March 2019, but it is important not simply to accept what happened and move on. The copyright industry used many […]

#article15 #copybuzz #euCopyrightDirective #genai #generativeAi #germany #googleTax #journalists #linkTax #lobbyists #newspapers #publishers

https://walledculture.org/the-link-taxs-failure-to-deliver-meaningful-benefits-is-a-lesson-for-the-copyright-industry/

Time spent working on a few more involved Fast Company assignments left me with just two bylines for the week.

8/22/2024: Google Agrees to Subsidize California Newsrooms to Avoid ‘Link Tax’ Mandate, PCMag

Three bits of context that I’m glad I had time to add to this post: how a key clause of the California Journalism Preservation Act had changed since last summer, how newsroom managers might have a different attitude about their sites being crawled by an AI bot instead of a search-engine bot, and how much profit Google reported in its most recent quarter.

8/24/2024: Boeing Capsule to Return From ISS Uncrewed, Astronauts to Stay Until 2025, PCMag

The essential context for this piece was how a decade ago, many people in Washington wanted Boeing to get the only contract to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station. In the alternate universe in which SpaceX got shut out of that bidding, Russia would have had a horrifying amount of leverage over NASA. Especially right now.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/25/weekly-output-google-agrees-to-california-news-deal-starliner-astronauts-to-get-a-spacex-ride-home/

#Boeing #CaliforniaJournalismPreservationAct #CrewDragon #GoogleNews #InternationalSpaceStation #linkTax #nasa #SpaceX #Starliner

Time spent working on a few more involved Fast Company assignments left me with just two bylines for the week.

8/22/2024: Google Agrees to Subsidize California Newsrooms to Avoid ‘Link Tax’ Mandate, PCMag

Three bits of context that I’m glad I had time to add to this post: how a key clause of the California Journalism Preservation Act had changed since last summer, how newsroom managers might have a different attitude about their sites being crawled by an AI bot instead of a search-engine bot, and how much profit Google reported in its most recent quarter.

8/24/2024: Boeing Capsule to Return From ISS Uncrewed, Astronauts to Stay Until 2025, PCMag

The essential context for this piece was how a decade ago, many people in Washington wanted Boeing to get the only contract to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station. In the alternate universe in which SpaceX got shut out of that bidding, Russia would have had a horrifying amount of leverage over NASA. Especially right now.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/08/25/weekly-output-google-agrees-to-california-news-deal-starliner-astronauts-to-get-a-spacex-ride-home/

#Boeing #CaliforniaJournalismPreservationAct #CrewDragon #GoogleNews #InternationalSpaceStation #linkTax #nasa #SpaceX #Starliner

Online News Act Caused Engagement to News Sites to Plummet by 43%

New research is adding to the growing body of evidence that the Online News Act has been devastating to the news sector.

Critics and experts like us have long warned of the consequences of the Online News Act, yet the government and the then

https://www.freezenet.ca/online-news-act-caused-engagement-to-news-sites-to-plummet-by-43/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #engagement #LinkTax #Media #OnlineNewsAct #traffic

Online News Act Caused Engagement to News Sites to Plummet by 43%

New research is adding to the growing body of evidence that the Online News Act has been devastating to the news sector.

Critics and experts like us have long warned of the consequences of the Online News Act, yet the government and the then

https://www.freezenet.ca/online-news-act-caused-engagement-to-news-sites-to-plummet-by-43/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #engagement #LinkTax #Media #OnlineNewsAct #traffic

Canadian Government Says It Wants to Charge Meta for News Screenshots

The Canadian government is considering doubling down on the disaster that was the Online News Act. Says it might charge Meta for screenshots of news.

Everything about the Online News Act has been a predictable disaster.

https://www.freezenet.ca/canadian-government-says-it-wants-to-charge-meta-for-news-screenshots/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #Facebook #LinkTax #Meta #MichaelGeist #OnlineNewsAct #TaylorOwen

Canadian Government Says It Wants to Charge Meta for News Screenshots

The Canadian government is considering doubling down on the disaster that was the Online News Act. Says it might charge Meta for screenshots of news.

Everything about the Online News Act has been a predictable disaster.

https://www.freezenet.ca/canadian-government-says-it-wants-to-charge-meta-for-news-screenshots/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #Facebook #LinkTax #Meta #MichaelGeist #OnlineNewsAct #TaylorOwen

#Kühnert fordert Prozenthürde nach Wahlklatsche🙃

Genau, wenn man
2.490.000 Menschen so frustriert, dass sie #Nichtwähler werden, wenn man
1.450.000 Menschen an die #Union unter Friedich #Merz verliert,
580.000 an #sarahzarenknecht nochmal
570.000 an die #Nazis von der #FckAFD,
120.000 an die FDP und immer noch
80.000 an die Grünen,
dann sind natürlich die kleinen Parteien daran schuld, dass es für die #SPD nicht gut lief.

UnFunFact: Es gibt bereits eine Prozenthürde für die nächste #Europawahl, sobald Spanien sie auch ratifiziert hat. Sie wird mindestens 2 % und maximal 3,5 % betragen und es ist einfach zu erahnen, welche Präferenzen bezüglich der Höhe Kevin von der EX #Volkspartei diesbezüglich hätte.

"Wir müssen analysieren, warum uns junge Wähler nicht mögen". Ich gebe mal Nachhilfe:

#Uploadfilter
#Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax
#vorratsdatenspeicherung
#Chatkontrolle
Abhängigkeit von russland
Zerstören von #Wind und #Solar

Quelle:
https://youtu.be/VZy5tgCQLFg

@tagesschau

Ich bin immer noch sauer wegen ihrer Zustimmung zu dem #Uploadfilter und #Leistungschutzrecht #LinkTax Desaster.

Auch sonst finde ich nicht, dass die SPD in den letzten 5 Jahren im Europaparlament relevantes erreicht hätte. Genauso nutzlos wie die #SPD im Bund. 😒

Disgusting: Liberal Party Politicizes Wildfires to Push Link Tax

The wildfire season this year is looking to be horrible, but the Liberal party is turning it into a political opportunity to push the

https://www.freezenet.ca/disgusting-liberal-party-politicizes-wildfires-to-push-link-tax/

#Copyright #News #Alberta #BC #BillC18 #Canada #Facebook #FortMcMurray #FortNelson #HeritageMinister #JustinTrudeau #LinkTax #Meta #OnlineNewsAct #PascaleStOnge #politics #PrimeMinister #wildfires

Ach ne, die Link-Steuer in Canada hat negative Auswirkungen auf die Zeitungsverlage? Das hat ja niemand kommen sehen …

#lsr #linktax #journalism

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-media-ban-effects/

"New Zealand is far, far too small to bring the likes of Netflix, Google and Facebook to heel. California for example, is said to be the fifth largest economy in the world. Yet Meta and Google are threatening to cut off news items (and searches) about California if the state proceeds with... legislation [that] would require the social media giants to pay a “journalism useage fee” for linking to news sites based in California."

#GordonCampbell, 2024

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2404/S00041/on-fast-track-powers-media-woes-and-the-tiktok-ban.htm

#NewsMedia #LinkTax

Why International Media Should Be Watching the Google California Block Test

Google testing news link blocking in California could build up to have considerable implications for outlets beyond the US border.

https://www.freezenet.ca/why-international-media-should-be-watching-the-google-california-block-test/

#Copyright #International #News #California #CJPA #LinkTax #US

US Media Lobby Group Demands Investigation Into Google’s Perfectly Legal Test

US media lobby group, the News/Media Alliance, is calling on the Justice Department to retaliate against Google with a politically motivated "investigation".

https://www.freezenet.ca/us-media-lobby-group-demands-investigation-into-googles-perfectly-legal-test/

#Copyright #News #Google #LinkTax #NewsMediaAlliance

Google Begins Test Blocking News Links in California

Google has started to test it's ability to block news links in California in response to the CJPA (California link tax law).

https://www.freezenet.ca/google-begins-test-blocking-news-links-in-california/

#Copyright #News #Alphabet #California #CJPA #Google #JCPA #LinkTax #US

Predictable: Facebook Ends News Tab in Australia and the US

Meta has made the next step in distancing itself from news. This by ending the Facebook news tab in both the US and Australia.

https://www.freezenet.ca/predictable-facebook-ends-news-tab-in-australia-and-the-us/

#Copyright #News #BillC18 #Canada #Facebook #LinkTax #Meta #NewsBargainingCode #OnlineNewsAct #US

Meta States the Obvious: Users Don’t Use Their Services for News

Meta has had a piece published on Medium explaining that news is not a driver for their platforms success.

https://www.freezenet.ca/meta-states-the-obvious-users-dont-use-their-services-for-news/

#Business #Copyright #News #Australia #Canada #Facebook #LinkTax #Meta #NewsMediaBargainingCode

With the Failure of the Online News Act, Government Issues Massive Media Bailout

The Canadian government is now using the last tool in the chest. They are bailing out the news sector.

https://www.freezenet.ca/with-the-failure-of-the-online-news-act-government-issues-massive-media-bailout/

#Copyright #News #Canada #LinkTax #OnlineNewsAct #publishers

Predictable: Meta Announces It Would Not Be Renewing Australian News Deals

The pullout of Meta is predictably not exclusive to Canada. Now, it looks like news links will be dropped in Australia as well.

https://www.freezenet.ca/predictable-meta-announces-it-would-not-be-renewing-australian-news-deals/

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Rod Sims Defends His Link Tax With Complete Nonsense Talking Points

Faced with a looming pullout of Meta, Rod Sims pushes his nonsense talking points as if it's going to make a difference.

https://www.freezenet.ca/rod-sims-defends-his-link-tax-with-complete-nonsense-talking-points/

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Asinine: Australian Politicians Pushing to Include TikTok, Youtube, Into It’s Link Tax Law

The Australian government is witnessing their link tax crash and burn, so there's a push to include other platforms.

When Australia finalized it's link tax law back in 2021, it was based on he false premis

https://www.freezenet.ca/asinine-australian-politicians-pushing-to-include-tiktok-youtube-into-its-link-tax-law/

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After Nearly 6 Months Since Dropping News Links in Canada, Meta’s Stock Value Soars

Bill C-18 lobbyists claimed that Meta dropping news links would spell doom for the company. Today's stock prices begs to differ.

For months before the decision, Meta warned that the Online News Act (then called Bil

https://www.freezenet.ca/after-nearly-6-months-since-dropping-news-links-in-canada-metas-stock-value-soars/

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