A Calgary mom and dad are reeling after discovering a stranger has been taking photos of their young daughter from the family's social media accounts and, police say, using them to convince others he's a single father who is struggling financially.
Kent Walker, president of global affairs for Google and its parent company Alphabet, says he's disappointed it has come to this point but that the legislation remains unworkable.
Meta removing links to news is one thing but from Google is very big, and will be very bad for Canadians.
I can see it being shitty for you and I when searching for current news, the results being populated with low quality blogs/disinformation websites being the top results.
It's also going to be disastrous for Canadian news outlets that get organic traffic from Google. The news sites have ads on them which pay their bills.. so without traffic, there's no money. This will also kill any investment into the sector because who the hell would do that?
Not that anyone uses Bing for news lol but I can see them doing the same thing, and the other smaller search engines that are out there.
I know that a lot of people these days hate on the media but the internet being controlled like this by the government is not a good move, for anyone.
‘This kind of stuff is not tolerated’: Calgary man removes hate stickers from city fixtures (globalnews.ca)
Using a paint scraper, Graeme says he's been removing stickers with hate speech that have been affixed to city fixtures since March 2022.
Video of the crazy thunderstorm that rolled through Calgary today (twitter.com)
This man posted photos of his 'daughter' online for years. Her real family is horrified (www.cbc.ca)
A Calgary mom and dad are reeling after discovering a stranger has been taking photos of their young daughter from the family's social media accounts and, police say, using them to convince others he's a single father who is struggling financially.
Google set to remove news links in Canada over online news law (globalnews.ca)
Kent Walker, president of global affairs for Google and its parent company Alphabet, says he's disappointed it has come to this point but that the legislation remains unworkable.