People need to seperate what happened to quantify the win and losses of the actions.

The original bill was intended for news corporation to get a fair cut for their content. Even with just Google signing on for a 100 million was a significant success.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/google-online-news-act-exemption-1.7422690

For accessibility to news. Having less access to news for people always a bad thing. Having little to no regulations for modern media has also been a huge failure for almost all governments globally.