Can somebody please tell me if I understand this correctly? So the liberal government had a bill passed that disallows social media companies from sharing news articles, then Trudeau blasts the social media company for not sharing news articles.
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So the liberal government
Which other government would it be? It's okay to just say The Government when they're the elected ones ... unless this is less a question and more Question Period?
"The librul gubment"
They passed a law that said big companies have to PAY to post links to articles.
On the surface it was to go after places like Google News that would summarize an article, link to it for attribution, but people would rarely visit the original article fueling the advertisements that funded the media.
However to nobody's surprise, the government cocked up the legislation for the problem. They made a law that required the to pay for links, so the big companies just went... Ok, no links, no bill.
Obviously they didn't think this through, they wanted money to flow from Google/FB to Canadian media for a real problem, but in the effort to seek a way to tap the money for taxes, over legislated without understanding the problem and ended up with no links, no taxes.
Jeez I'm not one to bash Trudeau but if he really thinks this outcome was inconceivable maybe the guy isn't so bright after all.