The company on Friday said it has started blocking California-based news outlets to protest a pending bill that supporters say would extend a lifeline to the ailing news industry.
Some California users of Google were not able to access local news on Friday after the tech giant restricted news links in the state in response to a bill that would force the tech giant to pay publishers.
Supporters say it would offer a lifeline to California's news organizations, which have long been shedding jobs. "If passed, CJPA may result in significant changes to the services we can offer Californians and the traffic we can provide to California publishers," Zaidi wrote.According to Zaidi, the blackout of California news articles is in anticipation of the bill passing. He said the move was temporary and would affect"a small percentage of California users."
In Canada, Google threatened to pull all news links in the country after the passage of a law that made the company compensate media outlets for content.
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