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This is completely typical in consumer protection laws. You can't legally sign away your right to warranty for example, and I believe that in some jurisdictions

This is completely typical in consumer protection laws. You can't legally sign away your right to warranty for example, and I believe that in some jurisdictions you can't sign away your right to sue (like you would if you agree to binding arbitration). I'd really like to see a more thorough argument than the linked blog on whether or not the proposed section is really a huge problem, and/or does nothing to protect legitimate rights holders who are in an asymmetric relationship with google that is maybe not to dissimilar to the consumer situation.

michaelmrose 9y ago
It's unalienable because a reasonable party would just refuse to pay for the privilege of linking to you and a reasonable content creator would realize that losing 50-80% of traffic coming from the people who you think ought to pay to promote you would be a bad bargain. Its inalienable to short circuit the normal results of negotiations between big companies because they don't like the end result.