[13] I Bet My Entire 18 Year Career on This Bill C-18 Interpretation
2With Bill C-18 passing and becoming law, everyone in the entire news sector is freaking out at this point. This is because Google and Meta have said that they will be dropping news links in response to what is now known as the Online News Act.
So, today, I go over my amateur legal interpretation and explain why I think I am not eligible and, as a result, won't be blocked from Meta and Google. there's no guarantee in any of this, but this is the interpretation I am going with and continuing on my nice 18 year long news writing career. If I'm wrong, my writing career pretty much comes to an end and there's exactly squat I can do about it.
I mentioned that I'll leave a link in the description about the text of the legislation, so here it is: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/C-18/royal-assent
What I reference is Section 27 of this new law.
As I mentioned in the video, just because this is my interpretation of the law doesn't necessarily mean that this is how Google or Meta is going to interpret things. In this case, they get to judge that and if they disagree with my assessment, well, bye bye news writing career. I don't exactly have much choice in the matter. Still, at minimum, this is about managing stress for me, so I'm choosing to be optimistic on things here. Hopefully, you got something out of this as well as I'm sure there are a lot of questions being raised in all of this, so maybe my interpretation offers some insight for others asking those questions. Who knows?
00:00 Intro
00:05 Bill C-18 Has Passed
00:23 Critic Predictions Are Coming True
00:39 Coming into Force
01:09 News Links Are Getting Blocked
01:24 How Google Will Block News Links
02:48 Where I Stand in This / Google FAQ
03:47 Interpreting Section 27. Am I Getting Blocked?
06:20 I Don't Think I Will Be Blocked
06:47 Only Google Decides if I'm Blocked or Not
07:29 There is No Appealing a Decision
07:59 Gambling My Whole Career on This
08:32 Did You Get Insights on This?
09:06 Outro
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