Is Canadian news so superior that a significant portion users who were previously content with Facebook's news feed will become so dissatisfied with it that they'll leave?
No. We just have a government that is captured by the media companies. We pay some of the highest fees in the world for internet and phone plans. Those providers happen to be the same media companies [1] [2] pushing for this crap legislation because they own all the newspapers and sports channels. Deep down, they would love to just block Google and Facebook for Canadians, but they know that’s not possible. So now they’re going to use their legislative cronies to ram this law through the House of Commons.
No. We just have a government that is captured by the media companies. We pay some of the highest fees in the world for internet and phone plans. Those providers happen to be the same media companies [1] [2] pushing for this crap legislation because they own all the newspapers and sports channels. Deep down, they would love to just block Google and Facebook for Canadians, but they know that’s not possible. So now they’re going to use their legislative cronies to ram this law through the House of Commons.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Media
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Communications