Google is testing restrictions that prevent some Canadian users from viewing news content in response to a Canadian government online news bill, escalating the battle between Big Tech and Western governments about the control of information online.
Bill C-18, the Online News Act, would force tech titans such as Google and Meta to negotiate deals compensating Canadian media for republishing content on their platforms. Meta owns Facebook and Instagram.
“We’ve been fully transparent about our concern that C-18 is overly broad and, if unchanged, could impact products Canadians use and rely on every day,” the company said in a statement. “We remain committed to supporting a sustainable future for news in Canada and offering solutions that fix Bill C-18.”
The Canadian government is furious about Google’s tested restrictions. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ripped Google’s actions as a terrible mistake according to the Globe and Mail, a Canadian news outlet. Canada is not the first western government to battle Big Tech over how it deals with media outlets. A 2021 Australian law giving the government power to negotiate content deals with media outlets led Facebook to briefly restrict the sharing of news on its platform. Facebook lifted the restrictions in 2021 after reaching an agreement with the Australian government.
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