I used to subscribe to The Logic, because the quality is there, but unsubscribed because I found the coverage skewed to a particular perspective (that's not a gripe; it's both their right to do this and my right to unsubscribe). But in a recent op-ed Logic editor David Skok has come out in favour of the government's proposed bill C-18 that would lead to a requirement that social media pay publishers for links to original content (Skok argues that this is not a 'link tax' because the money does not actually go to the government). Geist points out that The Logic already receives substantial public subsidies and says "the question left unanswered in Skok's piece is why The Logic in its current business model should be entitled to any payment at all from the Internet platforms. There is no reproduction of any articles and even links do not lead to an accessible news article" because almost everything The Logic publishes is behind a paywall.
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