The news about Meta is not the real reason I’m sharing this; rather the parenthetical question in the subject is. Does anybody know if this law affect Lemmy instances at all?
The news about Meta is not the real reason I’m sharing this; rather the parenthetical question in the subject is. Does anybody know if this law affect Lemmy instances at all?
Read the bill and while not a lawyer, it’s pretty clearly targeted at big corporations; two specific bits which likely make it non-applicable:
(a) applies in respect of a digital news intermediary if, having regard to specific factors, there is a significant bargaining power imbalance between its operator and news businesses
(d) requires the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (the “Commission”) to maintain a list of digital news intermediaries in respect of which the enactment applies;
Lemmy instances don’t have a bargaining power imbalance (or, really, ANY power to bargain at all), and the CRTC would have to list you as a ‘news intermediary’ for it to apply.