If they have news content, regardless of where the organization is based, they are a “digital news intermediary”. As a digital news intermediary they are thus subject to the law and may be made to pay Canadian news organizations. Note that the law doesn’t make them pay for foreign news, but the presence of foreign news is enough to allow the CRTC to make them pay for Canadian news.
FYI for Facebook to be exempt from C-18 they had to ban all news and not just Canadian news.
That’s not true, and doesn’t even make sense… how would the Canadian government force Meta and Google to pay non Canadian corporations for news?
If they have news content, regardless of where the organization is based, they are a “digital news intermediary”. As a digital news intermediary they are thus subject to the law and may be made to pay Canadian news organizations. Note that the law doesn’t make them pay for foreign news, but the presence of foreign news is enough to allow the CRTC to make them pay for Canadian news.
Michael Geist explains it here: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/08/why-is-meta-blocking-all-news-links-because-bill-c-18-covers-all-news-outlets/
So they block Canadian news and don’t have to pay for Canadian news. It’s functionally the same regardless.
Yes but they also have to block foreign news too, not just Canadian news.
Ah I see what your saying, they geoblock all news for Canadians.