Watching strong testimony to Canadian Parliament in support of #BillC18 from news industry and former Australian competition commissioner who studied and rolled out very similar law and has seen it work firsthand to balance bargaining power for news press small and large. /1
Rod Sims has since produced a report on the results in Australia which compel Google and Facebook to negotiate with press small and large. This is the bill which FB pulled news from its service and WSJ reported intentionally caused chaos to try to disrupt its evential passing. /2
Very few people have Google and Facebook’s back in trying to stop the Canadian bill. Even less than in Australia. The same people show up spreading misinformation suggesting the bills “tax links” or incentivize “click bait” - this is simply untrue. /3 
Sims doesn’t pull punches in suggesting how Google and Facebook have hurt journalism after going through the details of how Australia’s law has created more funding for news orgs, small and large, new and old. /4
Sims has made news several times:
- predicts Facebook will be designated under regs as it hasn’t played ball entirely
- says small pubs who collectively bargained are actually getting paid the *most per journalist* under the law
- also notes native digital pubs love law. /5
- predicts Facebook will be designated under regs as it hasn’t played ball entirely
- says small pubs who collectively bargained are actually getting paid the *most per journalist* under the law
- also notes native digital pubs love law. /5
Big mic Google Guy is back saying hundreds of small local pubs are “thriving” already and law compelling Google and Facebook to negotiate with news pubs (who elect to participate) will hurt them. I kid you not. He also tried to pass mic to fellow Google supporter but failed. /6
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