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Article content In late June, Congressman David Cicilline, who chairs the Antitrust Subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives said, “Today, we have sent a clear message. The United States will no longer let other countries lead the fight against unregulated monopoly power.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Opinion: Why Canada must fight Big Tech's unregulated monopoly power Back to video These market failures are having an impact on journalism, where the platforms divert about 80 per cent of advertising revenue from Canadian publ...
Canadians support making Google and Facebook pay for news content Poll Would you support the Conservative Party of Canada’s carbon tax plan of consumer pricing with ‘green’ savings account? Yes Eighty-two per cent of Canadians believe it’s time for the federal government to take action and force social media giants Google and Facebook to pay Canadian news publishers for their content, and ensure fair negotiations so that publishers get their share of online advertising revenue. As well, according to the poll, 70 per cent of Canadians now believe Google and Facebook have become too pow...
—— Author: Jean-Hugues Roy, Professeur, Ecole des medias, Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM) Shortly after Facebook nuked news from its platform in Australia, I spent an hour on the phone with Kevin Chan, head of public policy for Facebook, Inc., in Canada. He told me he’s “working really hard to prevent that outcome in Canada.” In other words, if Ottawa follows Australia and tables a bill forcing tech giants to share revenue with the news business, Facebook would drop the A-bomb on Canadian journalism as well. Chan would prefer to work out partnerships with Canadian journalism....
He told me he’s “working really hard to prevent that outcome in Canada.” In other words, if Ottawa follows Australia and tables a bill forcing tech giants to share revenue with the news business, Facebook would drop the A-bomb on Canadian journalism as well. Chan would prefer to work out partnerships with Canadian journalism. He said Facebook gave $10 million to various news projects in the past four years. He pledged “in 2021, we’ll do quite a bit more.” But don’t put a gun to our head, he basically said, or we’ll fight back. Render unto Caesar I actually share many of Chan...