- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
- cross-posted to:
- canada@lemmy.ca
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I only see my family using google to find which articles and news websites validate their views, so I don’t see this as something so bad.
gestures to the internet
Google isn’t the internet…this will literally effect nothing.
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.”