Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs, said in a press release Thursday that the law “remains unenforceable.”
He said the company should do it “Difficult Decision” to remove links to Canadian news from Google Search, Google News and other products in Canada once the law goes into effect.
Walker argued that the Online News Act “creates insecurity for our products and exposes us to unlimited financial liability simply because it makes it easier for Canadians to access news from Canadian publishers.”
News outlets’ revenues from ad sales and subscriptions fell as big tech companies dominate online news distribution and advertising.
Supporters of the Canadian law and similar US efforts say these measures are essential to protecting reliable news sources that tech companies rely on for their users.
Google’s move is the latest example from a major tech company fight back against laws designed to help news outlets stay afloat.
Meta also said last week that it would implement its plans Block message content Facebook and Instagram in Canada on the new law.
Meta made similar threats in response to a California measure, the Journalism Preservation Act, passed by the state legislature earlier this month.
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