This is a good reminder of just how much CBC puts out there. I am a little surprised not to see a mention of using alternative search engines like DDG or Bing, as to my knowledge those aren’t blocking Canadian news corps. (Please correct me if you know differently!) I guess if the goal is to raise awareness of the content you can get without an intermediary, it makes sense.
I’m very interested to see which parties cave first in this standoff. If nothing else, I’m impressed the Canadian government had the balls to mandate this of American companies.
The Canadian government seems to be following Australia’s lead. Australia was able to make deals with Google and Meta, so Canada is probably looking for the same thing.
Yes, key word here is “make deals,” which is what Australia ended up doing. They didn’t just dictate terms like Canada seems to want to. The entire point of these companies banning news is to remind our government that no, you can’t just dictate your terms, you actually have to negotiate. Maybe they will, we’ll have to wait and see.
The one thing that makes government different than any other organization is yes they CAN just dictate the terms. That’s their whole deal.
Not against foreign owned companies they cannot. As much as they would love to force these companies to both carry and pay for news, those companies can choose not to carry the news and thus not pay for it. Canada can not force them to do so.
I’d really like to see a CBC official Mastodon instance.
Just make a bot that reposts CBC rss feeds. I guess you might need to filter ads if they put those in-between stories, some rss feeds do.
Is one really on the internet if they’re trapped inside a tech bro walled garden. The situation seems quite terrible now that people have to be told how to go to a URL as simple as cbc.ca. It’s not like the internet was recently invented. This is a developed nation and one of the earlier to widely adopt internet usage. Here we are teaching people how to browse to a website. What a mess that big tech has made.
At some level I can’t really blame the tech companies for making it convenient to browse through their sites, but rather how they have used it to track and influence people. At some point everyone using the internet should have learned how to find websites they find it worthwhile to visit and use their critical thinking to identify whether a site is trash. That skill hasn’t changed in decades.
Wait till you tell them about rss feeds
The poor, benighted soul who heard you shouldn’t get news from Facebook, and thought to themselves, “No problem, I’ll just use Instagram!”
My 83 year old Dad uses Facebook, but only for family stuff. If he wants news, he goes to CBC.ca or sometimes CTV. He still gets his local paper too.
Shows why Canadian news companies should be getting into the Fediverse.
The whole point of the bill that caused this is that they want money. They won’t get money out of the fediverse. It was never about exposure.
Genuine question, not trying to be a snob about it…
Who actually uses Facebook and Instagram and stuff for news? It’s such a foreign idea to me that I’m interested in how many people actually get their news from these sites (as opposed to coming across it and interacting with it just because it’s there).
Are there actually people who will consume less news because of this? Is it specific demographics?
At one point I was following a few local news accounts on instagram because I’d scroll past some content while I was already looking through the feed. It wasn’t my only way of getting news, but just another form of it.
Facebook dropping news probably won’t affect me much, but I can see Google being more impactful. I know some people use the news feed as their primary way of finding news, and I also click on news articles when they come up on the search. Depending on the extent of the removal, it might replace a lot of reputable news with content that isn’t “news” but still fills that niche.
I guess that’s the alarming part - if people don’t change their habits and read ads as news.
Thanks for the explanation!
I think the people most worried about there being no “news” on FB or IG, etc. are the FB and IG addicts inside the news media itself.
The CBC app is already so good, though…
I have never gotten my news from social media. I get my news from news media and news papers.
