The Senate yesterday by a vote of 56 to 22 passed into law a bill mandating that Facebook and Google surrender a portion of news-related advertising revenues to government-approved media corporations like the CBC. Facebook immediately announced it would halt all links to Canadian news content: “If Facebook pulls out of news in Canada as they have indicated it will have a devastating impact.”
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