The CRTC has agreed to give the world's biggest search engine 5 years off from obligations under the Online News Act, but it will have to fork over $100 million to the Canadian Journalism Collective within the next 60 days.
It means Google won't censor news in Canada like Meta's Facebook has for the past year, refusing to pay the fee.
Choosing not to index or link to something is no more censorship than a bookstore refusing to stock a book because they've been told they have to sell it at a loss.
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