Friday, June 23, 2023 – 3:03 PM WIB
VIVA Techno – Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said it would limit access to information to users in Canada. It comes after a controversial online news bill was passed by the Canadian Parliament.
The regulation will force major sites to compensate publishers for content posted on their platforms, as quoted by the Express site, Friday June 23, 2023.
Both Meta and Google say they have tested limiting news to Canadians. A similar 2021 law previously banned Australians from sharing or viewing news on Facebook.
Canada’s Online News Act requires web companies such as Meta and Google to negotiate business deals with news organizations. Meta calls the regulation an imperfect law, which ignores the reality of how the platforms operate.
“A legislative framework that forces us to pay for links or content that we don’t post, which is not what most people use our platform for, is unsustainable and unenforceable,” a Meta spokesperson said.
Google, meanwhile, said the new law was unenforceable in its current form. Despite everything, the search engine giant will engage with the Canadian government to find a solution.
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