[graeme]

I'm Canadian. It's obviously extortion. Unless you take the position that linking to someone on the internet harms them.

In the regular world, people pay for links. Google had to ban the practice of paying for links because links are so valuable. And people still do it.

It is nonsensical to argue that links are a cost. So, this law was an attempt at a shakedown.

And it didn't work very well. Meta walked, and this deal with google exempts it from the law if it pays $100 million. All existing deals with the media were cancelled too.