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Is the threat specifically Google News? I feel it's very rarely mentioned anywhere, at least compared to Facebook's news feature. If I didn't know better, I wou
by distances 9y ago
Is the threat specifically Google News? I feel it's very rarely mentioned anywhere, at least compared to Facebook's news feature. If I didn't know better, I would've thought Google News was one of the services Google closed down.
- c3o 9y agoThe German law was targeted only at news aggregators. The legal text of the proposed EU version has no such limitation. As for clear (ahem) statements who this is actually aimed at -- here's Commissioner Oettinger, who was responsible for the first edition of this proposal: "If we don't act now, there will be fewer and fewer news articles to link to." "Even iPhone, tablets and Facebook are offering news feeds nowadays. We want to strengthen publishers not least in relation to these new providers" Translated from German https://twitter.com/GOettingerEU/status/772785182550159360 https://twitter.com/GOettingerEU/status/772785182550159360