Google might be eradicating hyperlinks to Canadian information in Search, Information, and Uncover following the current passage of the On-line Information Act in Canada, in response to a weblog submit by Kent Walker, Google’s president of worldwide affairs. The legislation, additionally referred to as Invoice C-18, forces massive tech firms like Google and Meta to pay information publishers for his or her content material.
“The unprecedented determination to place a value on hyperlinks (a so-called ‘hyperlink tax’) creates uncertainty for our merchandise and exposes us to uncapped monetary legal responsibility merely for facilitating Canadians’ entry to information from Canadian publishers,” Walker wrote. “We’ve been saying for over a yr that that is the fallacious strategy to supporting journalism in Canada and will lead to important modifications to our merchandise.”
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