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then just turn off the CC and don't serve them at all.
by Shivetya 6y ago
then just turn off the CC and don't serve them at all.
- zentiggr 6y agoWe just found a legislative way to break the Google search monopoly - more countries pass this sort of "pay to play" barrier, and Google says no, and then there's space for competitors.
- ZekeSulastin 6y agoWouldn't the competitors then have to do the same thing though, thereby reducing the incentive to compete?
- rydre 6y agoIt would bring up opportunity for alternative models for news instead of being tied to search/feed.
- vorpalhex 6y agoThere's nothing preventing the news from alternative models now. It just turns out employing a bunch of people to repost tweets isn't a profitable business and forcing other companies to pay them via the law doesn't work any better.
- zanny 6y agoI can't imagine the population of any country would be too happy when google.com returns a "Service discontinued due to law blah blah blah" when they want to look up how to beat eggs.