Here is Trudeau's follow-up to the Barbie post that drove Canada's right wing crazy (and Piers Morgan)
Balancing things out: Oppenheimer with Ella. pic.twitter.com/MdcZlhDwaG
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) August 9, 2023
Study: Being hated by Piers Morgan, Jordan Peterson et al. most likeable thing about Justin Trudeau https://t.co/mCfxOEG5FJ pic.twitter.com/su5ndluee8
— The Beaverton (@TheBeaverton) August 8, 2023Related Articles
2/2 no Violence against Women's advocacy groups support the bill becuase, simply, it doesn't address the issue. Further, Wagnatall has this twice before & hasn't been discrete about the idea that they want to assign personhood to fetus' in order to weaken abortion access #cdnpoli
— Univrsle (@univrsle) August 6, 2023
Moving on another follow-up: Canada's new Online News bill is now starting to get some appreciation from both journalists and the general public, as the social media companies start trying to bully Canada into dropping it:Conservatives have been diapering Anti Choicers forever. They want the cash & votes. Arguing that Conservatives are a pro choice party is like arguing the kitchen table is a giraffe. It isn't. No amount of high school hall talk which passes for CPC messaging will change that. https://t.co/zpLYBj10P1
— Charles Adler (@charlesadler) August 6, 2023
Hamilton Nolan writes a great piece about the threats from Google and Facebook - Do It, Fuckers!Canadian Media outlets finally take a public stand against Meta.
— Dan_GT2 (@Dan_GT2) August 8, 2023
The @JustinTrudeau government has stood up for Canadian media but this same media hasn’t stood up with the Trudeau government. Why is that? https://t.co/1DOa30VGc0
...For years, people who have watched the tech platforms slowly killing the media industry have begged governments to intervene. Now, Canada is. They recently passed the Online News Act, which says that digital platforms like Google and Facebook must pay a small fee to news organizations when they share their links, and allows news outlets to collectively bargain with tech platforms....The irony, or the sickness, of this situation is that while the tech companies are vastly more financially valuable than the entire News Industry, the news industry is vastly more socially valuable than these companies. ...the loss of most of the news media—something that we are very much headed towards—will produce awful consequences for our society: More misinformation, more corruption, a dumber and less informed populace, more conspiracy theories, more extremism, and a much greater ability of powerful people and institutions to enact their selfish will unchallenged. Existentially bad things. American democracy does not function in the absence of a healthy free press. Our system is built to rely on the press to keep every other part honest. If that goes away in order to make tech companies richer, I guarantee you that future generations are going to regret it.So the proper response when these companies threaten to shut off news if we ask them to pay for it is: Go ahead, fuckers. Do it! Will this suck? Yes, at least in the short term. People will find that their go-to one-stop news sources don’t work any more. Publishers and journalists like me will find that it is much harder to share our work widely with the click of a button. This will cause dislocation in the near term. Some places will go out of business. Some writers will lose their jobs. Some people will just give up on reading news. I freely admit that this part will suck!But! But! Remember that we are already on a path to the near-complete collapse of the news industry. Just more slowly. Without any changes in the current economic model, without any government regulations to create some sort of new revenue stream for news outlets, without any action that smashes the current system that allows middlemen to take the majority of the income that once went to the actual producers, the future of American journalism is a small number of national prestige outlets like the NYT and the total death of local news (which by definition can never have the scale to be financially successful in the current online ad market). Nobody alive today has seen what the absence of a functional news industry at the local and state level over a long period of time looks like. It will fuck a lot of things up, I promise you. The only winners will be rich people and crooks. We don’t want to go down that road.
“But the law, which took effect in March 2021 after talks with the big tech firms led to a BRIEF SHUTDOWN of Facebook news feeds in the country, may need to be extended to other online platforms, the review said.” Oh look, did Australia cease to exist? https://t.co/Kl98RB03OP
— SK8 Wireless (@SK8Wireless) August 2, 2023
