In one of the strangest online media laws in some time, the Canadian Parliament enacted the Online News Act, mandating technology companies such as Google and Facebook to pay mainstream Canadian news publishers just for allowing platform users to link to their content.
The law, inspired by a similarly absurd law passed in Australia in 2021, aims to prop up the mainstream media.
However, the date when the act will come into operation remains unknown.
Read the full text of the act here.
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