• Ertebolle@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Does anybody know what these bills say about distributed / open platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon? (obviously paying per link is not viable here)

    • Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteOP
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      I think this is unclear, as the CRTC isn’t expected to have the actual policies developed until sometime next year.

      However, this is in the text of the bill:

      6 This Act applies in respect of a digital news intermediary if, having regard to the following factors, there is a significant bargaining power imbalance between its operator and news businesses:

      (a) the size of the intermediary or the operator;

      (b) whether the market for the intermediary gives the operator a strategic advantage over news businesses; and

      © whether the intermediary occupies a prominent market position.

      I can’t imagine this ever applying to decentralized social media.

    • burntbutterbiscuits@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I assume the server instance and the user would both have to be in the country. But I don’t think lemmy instances are making money off of their users that I know of.

    • Awkwardparticle@artemis.camp
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      The bills objective is to give journalists compensation for their work. I think Lemmy actually promotes this because people click on the links to try to read the article directly, instead of viewing them through a social media platform acting as a middleman.

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      1 year ago

      Could you imagine if you or your grandmother had to pay a dollar to post a link to a Canadian article on a social media site.

      • GameGod@lemmy.ca
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        This is disingenuous and irrelevant - that’s no what’s being proposed at all. And if you’ve ever run Facebook ads, you’d know what a ridiculous amount of money Facebook gets from that.