{"id":1207206,"date":"2023-11-29T16:47:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207206"},"modified":"2023-11-29T16:47:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:47:18","slug":"google-to-pay-canadas-link-tax-drops-threat-of-removing-news-from-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207206","title":{"rendered":"Google to pay Canada\u2019s \u201clink tax,\u201d drops threat of removing news from search"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/canada-flag-800x446-1.jpg\" alt=\"Canada's national flag\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/canada-flag.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1395\" data-width=\"2500\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Getty Images | Manuel Augusto Moreno)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Google has agreed to pay Canadian news businesses $100 million a year to comply with the country&#8217;s Online News Act, despite previously saying it would remove Canadian news links from search rather than make the required payments.<\/p>\n<p>Google and government officials agreed to a deal that lets Google negotiate with a single news collective and reduce its overall financial obligation. Facebook owner Meta is meanwhile holding firm in its opposition to payments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Google will contribute $100 million in financial support annually, indexed to inflation, for a wide range of news businesses across the country, including independent news businesses and those from Indigenous and official-language minority communities,&#8221; Minister of Canadian Heritage Pascale St-Onge said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/canadian-heritage\/news\/2023\/11\/statement-by-minister-st-onge-on-next-steps-for-the-online-news-act.html\">statement<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1987263#p3\">Read 12 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1987263&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1987263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google to pay Canada\u2019s \u201clink tax,\u201d drops threat of removing news from search<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Manuel Augusto Moreno) Google has agreed to pay Canadian news businesses $100 million a year to comply with the country&#8217;s Online News Act, despite previously saying it would remove Canadian news links from search rather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207206\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1207206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}