Google said the test was meant to assess the impacts of a potential response to Bill C-18, the Liberal government’s controversial Online News Act
Google will stop blocking news links next week following a five-week test that limited access to news for some Canadian users, the company confirmed Friday.
“I want to underline that these are just tests. No decisions have been made about product changes. We’re simply doing our due diligence in the most responsible way possible,” said Jason Kee, public policy manager for Google. She said the Online News Act is no longer about supporting local journalism and will benefit legacy media and broadcasters the most, while incentivizing clickbait content over quality journalism.“But the exemption and eligibility criteria have shifted so significantly that it would require subsidies to media companies even if they don’t produce news, are not online, and we don’t link to their content.
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