Got to prop up the mass media
The Canadian government introduced legislation Tuesday to force digital giants to compensate news publishers for the use of their content.
The move is supposed to head off the collapse of media companies bought about by the rise of the internet. While most of the world will not mourn the death of news empires, before newspapers spent all their time writing adverts for Apple, or tailing C list celebrities, they were a good check and balance in democracy. But without funding, local journalism has collapsed leaving local and central government the ability to do what it likes without monitoring.
https://fudzilla.com/news/54656-cana...pay-newspapers
Canadians might make big content pay newspapers
8th April 2022, 06:46
Canadians might make big content pay newspapers 
