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feel like we discussed this here before and it was a different country (france?) so the issues is using content in google news or in snippets shown in google s
by blondin 7y ago
feel like we discussed this here before and it was a different country (france?)
so the issues is using content in google news or in snippets shown in google search results. i commented before that i seldom leave news or the main search anymore because of these snippets.
why isn't it fair that the ads revenue is shared with these news publishers if their content is taken?
- notatoad 7y agoit is fair that the revenue gets shared. i don't believe that publicly funded journalism is a bad thing, or that taxes are a bad thing. i just think a sneaky end-run around the normal systems of taxation and subsidy are a bad thing. Google and Facebook should be subject to heavy taxation, and local journalism should be supported through public funding. What these countries are trying to do is good, in spirit. i just think the government should not be in the business of deciding how much one independent private company pays another independent private company, and i don't think governments should be passing laws just for the purpose of being able to issue fines. if the government wants to redistribute wealth, they should do it through taxation, and they should be honest about what they're doing.
- vorpalhex 7y ago1. The news sites make the snippets available 2. Google could just stop showing them. See Spain where this killed the newspapers. This is entirely a case of publishers wanting their cake and Google's too.