Yes, this will kill off what’s left of local news and a lot of other sites if enacted. It’s incredibly stupid and the fact that the lobby group News Media Canada working for newspapers and digital publishers are trying to do this just shows that even 25 and 30 years after the internet became truly mainstream, these publishers still don’t understand how any of it works or how to survive.
It doesn’t just fail to solve any problems; it creates them. This breaks one of the basic founding principles of the world wide web. If website owners can be held liable for hyperlinks that the target of the link doesn’t like for whatever reason, then the entire concept of having hypertext breaks down!
A major English-speaking country like Canada validating this brain-dead idiocy doesn’t just fuck over Canada; it’s dangerous for the rest of the world because it’s liable to spread.
User generated links are no longer possible in a world where this law is being enforced. websites like Lemmy, mastodon, LinkedIn and Facebook will not be available.
I don’t see how this could be considered a good idea…
websites like Lemmy, mastodon, LinkedIn and Facebook will not be available.
Well, websites like LinkedIn and Facebook won’t, anyway.
Lemmy and Mastodon, being non-commercial services run on a distributed protocol, will simply work around the censorship similarly to things like Bittorrent.
What problem does this solve? Google and Facebook will just stop linking to news articles in Canada now.
Yes, this will kill off what’s left of local news and a lot of other sites if enacted. It’s incredibly stupid and the fact that the lobby group News Media Canada working for newspapers and digital publishers are trying to do this just shows that even 25 and 30 years after the internet became truly mainstream, these publishers still don’t understand how any of it works or how to survive.
Spot on. All the entities that supported this change are about to find out that what little traffic they once got is suddenly completely gone.
I could understand and even support an argument for imposing this kind of regulation on excerpts, but links? This is dumb, and self-destructive.
It doesn’t just fail to solve any problems; it creates them. This breaks one of the basic founding principles of the world wide web. If website owners can be held liable for hyperlinks that the target of the link doesn’t like for whatever reason, then the entire concept of having hypertext breaks down!
A major English-speaking country like Canada validating this brain-dead idiocy doesn’t just fuck over Canada; it’s dangerous for the rest of the world because it’s liable to spread.
User generated links are no longer possible in a world where this law is being enforced. websites like Lemmy, mastodon, LinkedIn and Facebook will not be available.
I don’t see how this could be considered a good idea…
Well, websites like LinkedIn and Facebook won’t, anyway.
Lemmy and Mastodon, being non-commercial services run on a distributed protocol, will simply work around the censorship similarly to things like Bittorrent.