You may have missed a few details then (ie; the mad scramble by Facebook to restore emergency and community services pages) and Australia passing legislation (albeit amended) to make social media Giants pay for content. Google also threatened to disable Google searching, but once again, didn’t withdraw any of its services. And really, why would they? They make mountains of money in western countries.
If anything, Canada had to pass this law to gain the same foothold as Australia had, and FB+Google kinda endorsed the idea that paying for news will NOT actually harm their bottom line enough to be not-neglible.
You may have missed a few details then (ie; the mad scramble by Facebook to restore emergency and community services pages) and Australia passing legislation (albeit amended) to make social media Giants pay for content. Google also threatened to disable Google searching, but once again, didn’t withdraw any of its services. And really, why would they? They make mountains of money in western countries.
If anything, Canada had to pass this law to gain the same foothold as Australia had, and FB+Google kinda endorsed the idea that paying for news will NOT actually harm their bottom line enough to be not-neglible.