>If Canada succeeds in its current implementation of Bill C-18 it will absolutely destroy the revenue for media organizations in Canada rapidly accelerating the decline in journalism here.
Every media org is behind C-18. Even PostMedia, about as "right wing" as it gets here, is behind C-18.
C-18 is complex. I have paid little attention to it as it isn't my field and I honestly don't care that much about it. But your take is quite humorous in the context.
Every LARGE media organization is behind C-18, because they will get some money from it (not even that much, most of it goes to Rogers, Bell and the CBC; the PBO suggests only $80 million split between newspapers in Canada from the bill, and that's only if Meta and Google don't withdraw from the market which they are currently intent on doing).
Almost every Independent media organization is against C-18, because they will receive no benefit whatsoever from the Bill. Instead they receive irreperable harm in having their revenue and traffic sources from Meta and Google shut off, which for an industry already desperately hanging on by a thread is a significant blow and will result in the bankruptcies of most independent media organizations in Canada.
"it will absolutely destroy the revenue for media organizations in Canada rapidly accelerating the decline in journalism here"
And by "media organizations" and "journalism" you are No true scotsman leveraging and actually talking about, I guess, some guy with a YouTube channel?
Every local paper is owned by one of the majors. They are the source for the overwhelming bulk of Canadian news actually consumed by the Canadian public.
Name a single "independent media" that is your holistic all Canadian media and journalism? The Rebel and its dozens of readers?
>If Meta and Google don't withdraw from the market
Then people can go to cbc.com, nationalpost.com, ctvnews.com, etc. That people ever relied upon Google or Facebook as an intermediary of news was folly.
How is that remotely relevant? Ignoring that they called it off (after talking about it for something like a week), PostMedia's kneejerk opinion to almost every issue is "pro business / anti-government". Yet PostMedia has repeatedly, openly stated their support for C-18.
Every media org is behind C-18. Even PostMedia, about as "right wing" as it gets here, is behind C-18.
C-18 is complex. I have paid little attention to it as it isn't my field and I honestly don't care that much about it. But your take is quite humorous in the context.