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The article says that European countries "tried and failed" to rein in the tech giants. Although I'm not sure if shutting down Google News is actually "tried an

The article says that European countries "tried and failed" to rein in the tech giants. Although I'm not sure if shutting down Google News is actually "tried and failed" so much as "tried and succeeded, but not according to first preference". I mean, if you can't go to google news to get your news, maybe you do go directly to the website of some major news company (and get a monoculture).

donatzsky 6y ago
Don't remember the details, but I know smaller publishers were hit pretty hard by Google News closing in Spain.
0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
While it's not the selling point politically, I think those lobbying for things like this are very much happy with any monoculture that results. With services like Google News, people can get exposed to news from various media outlets, but by killing it through lobbying for absurd regulatory burdens on aggregators the well known larger outlets can choke out access to their competition. This of course is hampered to some extent by the reality that many will just rely on other users posting on social media for news updates, and if that too is choked out through regulation on platforms, many will probably just skip the news or reduce their consumption in favor of other things like entertainment.
- mark_l_watson 6y ago
  I used to use Google News to find different articles from different companies whenever a news story interested me. It was good to get often very different points of view. I now just spend a little time on Apple News+ to skim what is happening. While I am locking myself more into a mono culture just looking at US news, I decided that I needed to greatly decrease the amount of time I spent on the news every day. The world situation is what it is. I try to accept the world as-is, invest as little time as possible understanding the world and concentrate on my own productivity, fellowship with friends and family, and generally appreciating culture and nature. News watching is an addiction that too many of my friends have.

donatzsky 6y ago

Don't remember the details, but I know smaller publishers were hit pretty hard by Google News closing in Spain.

0xfffafaCrash 6y ago

While it's not the selling point politically, I think those lobbying for things like this are very much happy with any monoculture that results. With services like Google News, people can get exposed to news from various media outlets, but by killing it through lobbying for absurd regulatory burdens on aggregators the well known larger outlets can choke out access to their competition. This of course is hampered to some extent by the reality that many will just rely on other users posting on social media for news updates, and if that too is choked out through regulation on platforms, many will probably just skip the news or reduce their consumption in favor of other things like entertainment.

mark_l_watson 6y ago
I used to use Google News to find different articles from different companies whenever a news story interested me. It was good to get often very different points of view. I now just spend a little time on Apple News+ to skim what is happening. While I am locking myself more into a mono culture just looking at US news, I decided that I needed to greatly decrease the amount of time I spent on the news every day. The world situation is what it is. I try to accept the world as-is, invest as little time as possible understanding the world and concentrate on my own productivity, fellowship with friends and family, and generally appreciating culture and nature. News watching is an addiction that too many of my friends have.