@atomicpoet Agreed and all that happened when Facebook did this in Australia to try to prevent a similar law going through is that people started, gasp, getting their news from news sites and downloaded ABC's news app (ABC is a public broadcaster). It was actually good for news and news media!

On the other hand, the Canadian law is modeled on the terrible Australian law that was basically Morrison giving Murdoch a gift (Newscorp owns a lot of Australia's mainstream media) and it took a lot of fighting for independent news outlets to get any look in or consideration at all and there's only now some talk about ABC/SBS (the public broadcasters) to even get considered for payment. It's a crappy law that is basically a money grab by corporate media that sucks and spreads disinfo anyway.