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Google Joins Facebook In Blocking Canadian News · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  So in the familiar pattern of the Trudeau liberals doing something and then everything getting
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  worse. Well, we've got the latest. So after Meta, which is
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  Facebook and Instagram has already said that it will be blocking links from Canadian news
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  sites in Canada because of Bill C eighteen, the Online News Act. Google
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  has announced it's doing the same. And here's that what Google has to say
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  about it now an update on Canada's Bill C eighteen and our search and news
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  products. The government of Canada has enacted a new law called Bill C eighteen,
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  the Online News Act, requiring two companies to pay for simply showing links
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  to news, something that everyone else does for free. And that's why this
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  law doesn't really make sense except as just a pure money grab. Because you
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  click on a link, it takes you to the website. Right, that's
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  how that you can generate revenue in the new media landscape. They can't monetize
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  you until they get you to their website. And this shouldn't have been surprising
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  at all. And are they going to do this with every single country in
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  the world. Apparently the truth of liberals. We're expecting three hundred million dollars
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  a year and to go to Canadian news publishers, so in other countries it
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  could end up being billions of dollars. I don't think it would have taken
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  a lot of savvy to see that maybe they're going to draw a line in
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  the sand. That appears to be what they're doing, says. This unprecedented
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  decision to put a price on linksy, so called link tax, creates uncertainty
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  for our products and exposes us to uncapped financial liability simply for facilitating Canadian's access
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  to news from Canadian publishers. You know, one would think this wouldn't be
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  something that you'd do if you didn't want to actually restrict Canadians access to news
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  from Canadian publishers. But more on that in a minute. Where is Google
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  removing Canadian news from Google is removing links to Canadian news publications from its search
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  engine, news aggregator, and discovery product, So from the search engine,
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  you won't be able to search up news on the search engine in Canada,
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  says. Canadian users will still be able to access news content about the country
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  from international outlets such as BBC New York Times and The Guardian. So you
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  could access news in a Google search from BBC New York Times and The Guardian,
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  and all three of those are completely woke, by the way, and
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  completely biased, and you're not going to see much other than a very Protrudeau
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  slant from those outlets. But in any case, any foreign outlet is not
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  likely to be very granular in its detail, and you're certainly not going to
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  get an in depth or an alternative view on, say the Charker protest.
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  When will the changes take effect? Google says it will stop linking to news
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  from Canadian publishers as soon as the Online News Act comes into effect. It's
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  already passed in the House, but it's expected to actually go into effect around
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  the end of the year. And this is interesting here at Google News showcase,
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  the company's mechanism of licensing news from over one hundred and fifty local publishers
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  will cease operating in Canada. So they already had one agreement in Canada with
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  local publishers, but they're canning that now because they can't work with the Trudeau
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  Liberal government. And I don't want to be conspiratorially here, but it almost
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  feels like they want Google to reject it. They want them to stop showing
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  links to Canadian content. Why would that be? And I think what we
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  have here is a win and a win win for Trudeau. If Google accepts
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  the terms, then Google has to go into negotiation with every Canadian news company.
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  Guess who's going to get priority? The big corporate national brands that everybody
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  knows in Canada, like Global and obviously CBC, and they have lots of
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  money for lawyers, and they have lots of money for lobbying, They are
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  certainly going to get priority. But what of the smaller what of the smaller
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  outlets like Rebel News or True North or the Counter Signal, Well, they're
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  going to find it more difficult than negotiate, aren't they. And they're going
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  to absolutely be at a disadvantage. And weekend, and what happens if Google
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  and Facebook projected, which they have, Well, all of the independent news
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  sources they're wiped out. They they can't be discovered, they can't share their
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  content, nobody will find out who they are. And CBC, everybody knows
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  the CBC. They can just put into CBC dot c A. They can
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  go to the CBC. Same with Global or CTV or the National Post or
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  the Globe and Mail. But still all of those are still going to lose
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  a bunch of advertising revenue because they're still going to be way less eyeballs on
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  their content. They're still going to be far fewer people actually going to their
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  website because their content is no longer being advertised for free he for free on
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  Facebook or Google in Google Search. So then what happens, Well, they
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  have to get deeper into true pocket, don't they. And call me cynical,
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  but I think that's an outcome that Trudeau may not have been so worried
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  about. And as unpopularist Trudeau is right now in Canada, I don't think
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  he plans on going anywhere. I certainly don't think he plans on resigning.
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  I think he plans on winning the next election. And the more desperate that
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  the news outlets are for bayouts from him, the deeper in his pocket they
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  are. And let me just say this explicitly, just in case I haven't
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  been clear enough, Justin Trudeau would like the media to be even more dependent
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  on him financially, so that they will feel pressured to give him positive coverage
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  before and during the next election. And again, call me cynical, but
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  Justin Trudeau has been my Prime minister for eight years, so I think it's
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  well earned. Anyway, please subscribe, like, and share. Sharank really
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  helps me out. I thank you for that. I will see you next time.