Don't tell me you're full of those idiots who think linking to news articles with a summary is what has been losing Canadian news revenue for the last decade, that the entire bill C-18 had any legitimacy and was not our governments showing that they are not only out of touch, but completely willing to throw us under the bus if there is a tax that can be charged.
It's just complete ignorance to how the ad market actually works, it's a huge undervaluing of the significance of news access, and it's a reveal that our government is completely ready to fuck up relations with companies our country literally couldn't function without. Google doesn't need Canada just a heads up, we're just lucky it's a company that considers having a piece of everyone's cake as the goal. We were rightfully ridiculed when this first came up, and our administration still deserves to be shamed more. Now as a Canadian, me and literal hundreds of people I know feel as though they have no option but to be well verse in VPN usage in this country.
The least I expect out of you guys is that, I understand it if you didn't catch on to the news control that was added onto online distribution during the period of C-18 being passed, but at least don't go thinking C-18 on it's own was a good thing.