•  floofloof   ( @floofloof@lemmy.ca ) OP
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      It will affect everyone who uses Google to search for the latest on a Canadian news story, or who browses Google News for local, provincial or national news. I imagine that’s quite a lot of people.

      • So instead of the 1000000 different sites saying the same stuff, Canadians still be restricted to the top 5 or whatever. Nothing of value is lost imo. Plus all of it is still accessable, just got the site itself.

  • C-18 has the potential of harming Canadian content by isolating it, just like is happening here. On a platform like YouTube, this law might cause Google to redirect a lot of traffic to Canadian content creators - Which isn’t really the traffic of people who are actually interested in that content.

    This then hurts the engagement stats of Canadian creators, as a large number of users start watching a video and then leave, uninterested. It’s another example of a law with a positive intent that ends up actually hurting people on the ground. Saw this whole topic differently after reading “Seeing like a State: How certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed.”