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Most Canadians view about Online News Act is news should be free, survey suggests

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A new survey suggests that most Canadians feel news should be free and accessible for anyone, while also believing that media will find other ways to make money.

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How about instead of shakedown laws we pass some laws about malicious advertising online? People are less likely to block ads when the ads are not actively trying to fuck over their device.
- Right to repair is a huge issue that most people totally ignore, it's frustrating. However you can't ban advertising online. it's how operators pay for their servers. Either every site that provides a service has a subscription model or runs ads.
The truth is paywalled. Only the lies are free.
News should absolutely be free, and freely available.
It being on Facebook is not either of those things, though.
- Hence the current policy of not allowing news on Facebook Canada. Guess what, it's not benefiting anybody.
  
  News is allowed, just not links to third-party media outlets. I notice the local CTV reporter has started posting the news directly on Facebook rather than linking into CTV like he used to do. Which is fine – who on Facebook wants to leave Facebook in the first place? Users use Facebook because they want to use Facebook, not painful third-party websites that have paid no attention to UX.
A new survey suggests that most Canadians feel news should be free and accessible for anyone
Yes.
while also believing that media will find other ways to make money.
Doubt.
The survey suggests that two out of every three Canadians think that news should be free and accessible to anyone, and "the struggling media have other ways to make money."
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That feeling was highest among 18 to 34-year-olds, a group that mainly gets their news from social media.
Unsurprising given the landscape we grew up in and problematic. At least I'm guess this cohort would be more inclined to have more publicly funded media to make it "free" to all.

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