> Maybe in the interest of free speech, we do actually need the link tax. The link tax isn't a free speech issue. It's an issue of news companies not adapting

> Maybe in the interest of free speech, we do actually need the link tax. The link tax isn't a free speech issue. It's an issue of news companies not adapting to the changing climate. Perhaps monolithic news companies will go extinct and be replaced by distributed individual citizen/contract journalism? Forcing a fee for clicking on news links is ridiculous because a) many companies already paywall their content so it's clearly already possible, b) it's attempting to force people to adapt to the news companies' business model rather than having them adopt to the internet and c) perhaps it's about time the news was democratised anyway.