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There’s a difference between scraping news organizations, summarizing it, and then presenting it on your site (which is what Google/Meta do, and what the regulation was meant to make them pay for), and having to pay for user shared content.
Forcing Meta/Google to pay for the first case I don’t have an issue with, the second one though seems rather silly.
To be clear though, I haven’t read anything suggesting this wasn’t accidental. Like they just saw a Ukrainian vet from WW2 who fought against the Russians and invited him.
It could be a lot fucking worse. I haven’t seen any statements put out by any of the political parties in Canada saying “I’m sure there were good people on both sides”…
Why is this surprising? ESA’s are not Service Animals. I’m only familiar with how the ADA works, but under the ADA ESA’s have special provisions when it comes to housing and airlines. ESA’s don’t have the right to be in restaurants or grocery stores, etc.
That said, rage bait is a bit harsh;
The event happened on the 22nd and I read about it on the 23rd or 24th, and at that time, I also learned about the Deschênes Commission. This is from an article 7 days ago:
The decision to allow about 600 members of the division to live in Canada after the second world war has long been a source of controversy in Canada, and was the subject of a government commission of inquiry in the 1980s into whether Canada had become a haven for war criminals. Members of the division were accused of killing Polish and Jewish civilians. The Nuremberg tribunals found the Waffen-SS guilty as an organisation of war crimes but not the Galicia division.
I’m in no way trying to excuse their actions, or whitewash, or whatever. My argument is the title of the article:
An important question that has been missed. How did a veteran of the SS Galicia division end up in Canada in the first place and he was not prosecuted?
Which is straight up bullshit; the question has been asked since the end of WW2 and has been answered several times.