{"id":23728,"date":"2023-06-30T01:41:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T01:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23728"},"modified":"2023-06-30T01:57:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T01:57:21","slug":"bill-c-18-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23728","title":{"rendered":"Bill C-18 fallout&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Canadian-Heritage-Minister-Pablo-Rodriguez-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23733\" width=\"630\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Canadian-Heritage-Minister-Pablo-Rodriguez-.jpg 714w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Canadian-Heritage-Minister-Pablo-Rodriguez--300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Canadian<\/em> <em>Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Source: CBC News<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google said Thursday it will remove Canadian news content from its search, news and discover products after a new law Online News Act, formerly known as Bill C-18, meant to compensate media outlets comes into force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move to pull news from the world&#8217;s most popular search engine could have a devastating impact on Canadian media outlets, which often depend on third parties like Google to get content into the hands of readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision comes after the government&#8217;s contentious C-18 legislation passed Parliament last week. The&nbsp;bill has been criticized by tech giants like Meta&nbsp;and Google who say it&#8217;s unfair to impose what amounts to a tax on links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some smaller media outlets and experts have blasted the regime because they claim the bulk of the financial benefits will accrue to a handful of a large media players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"661\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/rodriguez.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/rodriguez.jpg 661w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/rodriguez-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez<\/strong> suggested Thursday he has no intention of backing down from this fight with the American web giants that control so much of what Canadians read and watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Big tech would rather spend money to change their platforms to block Canadians from accessing good quality and local news instead of paying their fair share to news organizations,&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rodriguez made the statement framed by a voluminous thatch of locks and beard which some anonymous wag described as a shock of white multitudinous hair coiffured to virile Quebecois perfection!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Court-Painter-Minister-Roderiguez.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Court-Painter-Minister-Roderiguez.jpg 630w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Court-Painter-Minister-Roderiguez-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"629\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Court-Painter-Captain-Heritage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Court-Painter-Captain-Heritage.jpg 629w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Court-Painter-Captain-Heritage-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez Source: CBC News Google said Thursday it will remove Canadian news content from its search, news and discover products after a new law Online News Act, formerly known as Bill C-18, meant to compensate media outlets comes into force. The move to pull news from the world&#8217;s most popular search &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=23728\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bill C-18 fallout&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23728"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23741,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728\/revisions\/23741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}