> There is no 'link tax'. You can paste a target URL anywhere you like along with descriptive words. What there is: a restriction on quoting from the article.

> There is no 'link tax'. You can paste a target URL anywhere you like along with descriptive words. What there is: a restriction on quoting from the article. Well, that depends on what is meant by "quoting from the article". The EFF believes that the proposed wording is so vague that some bare URLs might be covered: > The Directive is extremely vague on what defines a "link" or a "news story" and implies that an "excerpt" consists of more than one single word from a news-story (many URLs contain more than a single word from the headline). Source: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/eus-link-tax-will-kill-open-access-and-creative-commons-news https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/eus-link-tax-will-kill...