William Watson: An occasion for sympathy — via fpcomment
Now we’re telling the tech companies they’ve got to buy the news links whether they want to or not, and if they and a supplier can’t agree on a price, the government, in the form of the CRTC, will help them arrive at one. “We’re from the CRTC and we’re here to help,” could be among the nine most frightening words in Canadian English, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan.
I have no idea what’s going to happen. As a would-be supplier of links myself, I obviously hope somebody ends up paying for them. In the early days of the internet, former Mulroney chief of staff Norman Spector provided an early-morning e-news service, reproducing the best of that day’s Canadian opinion. But he had to shut down when the newspapers whose opinion he was disseminating objected.
Two decades ago tech companies could do no wrong. Now wrong is all they seem to do, and politicians smell their blood in the water. But let’s all take a deep breath and think for a minute. Which institutions in society are working and which aren’t? Being able to Google things is at least a minor miracle . Amazon’s logistics are amazing.
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