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by o11c 931 days ago
So apparently it is plausible to require, then.
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Always was. Never believe the talking points and attempts at shaping the narrative. It’s “impossible” until it’s done.
It was never a matter of “could” only “should”.

It’s still a bad law, and Google shouldn’t have capitulated.

Meta is still out. No news media in Canada can share their articles there anymore. And Google has been exempted from the law - that's how the govt and google reached an agreement. The law called for google to bargain individually with each publisher, but instead google negotiated a $100 million payment with the government in order to have them not apply the law.