Cory explains in this article how abandoning US-style anti-circumvention rules law would move power from the handful of giant corporations that make up the US tech cartel to ordinary Canadians, and the same applies to doing it in NZ;
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Secondly, we need to lean into the proposals from Better Public Media, amongst others, to levy a tax on all digital advertising. Using the proceeds for arms-length funding of public interest media channels and projects.
Big Content's demand for a link tax targeted at certain US corporations is neither principled nor futureproof. Whereas a comprehensive digital ad tax is like a pollution tax for the net, taxing something we want less of, to fund stuff we need more of.
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