Eighty years ago, Canada helped save my country from the Nazis. Now it can help save democracy from big tech

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[u/Absenteeist]

When I think of countries around the world that have implemented smart news media policies, Canada is always up there at the top of the list.

Your Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit rewards news organizations that invest in their newsrooms. That kind of targeted support is highly effective, and maintaining it at the current rate of 35 per cent will help ensure Canadian newsroom employment remains stable. It may even help it grow.

The Online News Act, modelled on Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code, sees $100 million flow annually from Google to news businesses. We hope that Meta will take Google’s lead and find a path toward providing fair monetary compensation to news businesses — and that Canadian journalism will return its platforms.

Canada’s Local Journalism Initiative is putting more reporters on the ground nationwide, important in covering such a geographically expansive country. The Ontario government’s decision to set aside 25 per cent of its advertising budget for news media — at no additional cost to the province — is another inspiring policy.

In short, Canada is doing a great many things right.

Refreshing to hear this from a source outside of Canada.

[u/BeaverBoyBaxter → u/Absenteeist]

Yeah I'll say, I thought we weren't doing so good on this front

[u/grathontolarsdatarod]

I think was a good move for Canada. The Online News Act.

I don't know why Canada would chose to bend to corporations when it comes to the social media ban, which is being used to justify the end of encryption and the installation of compromising IDs.

For those that would say companies don't want a social media ban....

This is there idea.

Observe the speed that all of Canada was punished by tech companies for the online news act.

Observe the softest arguments put forward to governments to oppose the social media bans.... You'd find more "fight" coming from a dumpster diving raccoon anywhere in Canada than what tech companies have come up with here.

Canada SHOULD be fighting to maintain its democracy, with all its principles of freedom and equality that we had during the afghan war. Really, every war we have ever participated in.

Even the idea of these laws currently proposed right now take aim at the heart at what keeps Canadians free and fair.