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AB 886 (leginfo.legislature.ca.gov)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/california

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If you're like me, you've probably been bombarded with ads about how awful AB 886 is. You should know that AB 886 is an attempt to support local journalism by forcing large, for-profit platforms that share links to online local news articles, like Reddit, Xitter, Facebook, and Google, to pay money to those local news agencies for access to their work. The group behind the ads against AB886 is the CCIA, or the Computer & Communications Industry Association, which is a lobbying group whose membership includes such small, local journalism organizations as:

Google
Amazon
Facebook
Twitter
And many more

Here's their Wikipedia page if you're interested: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_%26_Communications_Industry_Association

So, predictably, this is down to huge for profit companies wanting to continue getting access to other people's work for free. If you're feeling like taking memes seriously and getting into fights with strangers, you might think about calling your assembly member and letting them know that the CCIA can go fuck themselves and to support AB886.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"This bill would prohibit a covered platform from retaliating against a digital journalism provider for asserting its rights under the act by refusing to access content" -- AB 886

This clause is an attempt to prevent these platforms from just blocking links to Californians and its news organizations.

It won't work. Forced speech has been regularly shot down in the courts for violating the first amendment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Good point.