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by throwatdem12311 40 days ago
Can’t criticize the Liberals because they hold the purse strings. Can’t support the Conservatives because defunding them is explicitly on their platform.

Quite the pickle.

I do find it funny that the Online News Act, enacted by a Liberal Government, which effectively banned Canadian news from Facebook caused a financial crisis for the media companies that the government wanted to “protect” by strong-arming companies like Google and Meta into paying these companies for distributing their product for basically free for them.

Pretty economically illiterate to try to force a distribution company to pay the company they are providing their distribution service for.

There is no winning.