SUKABUMIUPDATE.com – Google blocks news content for a certain percentage of users in Canada. This step is a test response to the Canadian government’s new policy regarding online news billing regulations.
The regulation is known as Bill C-18 or the Online News Act. The settlement required digital giants like Google and Meta, the owner of Facebook, to negotiate deals that would compensate Canadian media companies for reposting their content on their platforms.
On Wednesday (2/22/2023), the company said it was temporarily limiting access to news content to less than four percent of Canadian users, as it assesses possible responses to the bill.
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The changes apply to search engines around the world as well as the Search feature on Android devices, which delivers news and sports updates. All types of news content are affected by the test, which will last about five weeks, the company said.
This includes content created by Canadian broadcasters and newspapers. “We briefly tested a potential product response to Bill C-18 impacting a very small percentage of Canadian users,” Google spokesperson Shay Purdy said in a written statement, responding to questions from La Canadian Press. /2023).
The company conducts thousands of tests each year to assess any potential changes to its search engine, he added.
“We are fully transparent about our concerns that C-18 is too prevalent and, if left unmodified, could impact the products Canadians use and rely on every day,” said Purdy said.
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A spokesman for Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said Canada would not be intimidated and called it disappointing that Google had borrowed from the Meta playbook.
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