• @fubo@lemmy.world
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    282 years ago

    The article doesn’t say whether the Canadian government has offered to not tax Facebook for carrying the links to news articles that the law now requires be taxed.

    • ijeff
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      152 years ago

      There’s no tax requirement. They’re required to come to an agreement with the news outlets to compensate them.

      • @fubo@lemmy.world
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        182 years ago

        Sure, and they chose the option of not imposing any costs on those news sites by linking to them; thus making sure that there’s nothing to compensate them for.

        • ijeff
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          72 years ago

          It’s more the idea of FB not generating ad revenue of their news content and thus not having to compensate them (rather than about adding cost burdens to the outlets). No specific taxes involved though. It’s similar to the Australian model.

      • @x4740N@lemmy.world
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        32 years ago

        So the same bullshit law as Australia, I dont know of of the Australian one has been repealed yet