Canada’s Senate on Thursday gave the go-ahead to the so-called Internet News Act, which forces major online platforms to pay news publishers for content they include in their services, which digital companies say is unaffordable . Once parliamentary procedure has been passed, the law will come into force as soon as it receives Royal Assent and is proclaimed into law, six months after receiving Royal Assent.
There target reaction She was quick to confirm what she had already announced in previous months: the news will no longer be available on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada before the law comes into effect. In fact, since the beginning of June, it was already carrying out tests which already concerned a small percentage of Canadian users.
Google, which has also previously shown its disagreement with this regulation, could also remove news links from its search engine, although there is no confirmation on this at the moment.
The two giants insisted during the treatment of the law on the fact that in addition to being unaffordable for their company, the diffusion of links to the news of the publishers is “beneficial” to them.
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