Thu Oct 5, 2023 – 1:13 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Google is remaining firm in its intention to block Canadians from accessing news content due to the Trudeau government’s Bill C-18 Online News Act.
In an October 2 email statement, Google announced that the Online News Act, also known as Bill C-18, remains fundamentally flawed and that the tech company intends to block content for Canadians rather than pay $172 million under the new law, according to The Globe and Mail.
“Unfortunately, the proposed regulations fail to sufficiently address the critical structural problems with C-18 that regrettably were not dealt with during the legislative process,” the statement said.
Canada’s Senate passed the Online News Act in June and it quickly became law. The new law, when fully implemented, will force social media companies to pay Canadian legacy media for news content shared on their platforms.
Under the proposed regulations, Google and Meta (the latter being the parent company of Facebook and Instagram) would pay a maximum of $230 million. Google, which also owns YouTube, would be expected to pay $172 million of the total amount.
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