The irony of #cdnmedia news outlets now complaining that they’ve lost all that traffic after Meta has started changing it’s policies is that it really undercuts the notion that they were getting that news content without anything in return.
Unpopular take, but it’s also true.
You all got duped.
All of this was both #predictable, and #predicted. From the moment C-18 was announced, it was obvious to many, many people that this would have exactly these negative effects on #Canadian #publishers/#sites.
But no-one listened. In fact, most of them still refuse to listen.
I'm tired of #politicians preening for the cameras without a care in the world for the #consequences of their actions - which mainly fall on others, not them.