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> How about we simply ban Google and Facebook from reproducing news on their own site? You can. Just add the robots.txt to the website. But the news sites nee
by threeseed 6y ago
> How about we simply ban Google and Facebook from reproducing news on their own site?
You can. Just add the robots.txt to the website.
But the news sites need Facebook/Google more than the other way around.
- RVuRnvbM2e 6y ago> But the news sites need Facebook/Google more than the other way around. This is oft-quoted, but the media organisations seemed to be doing better before Google/Facebook became the middle-man siphoning off advertising revenue.
- Ivoirians 6y agoUser behavior has changed. Look what happened when a similar law was passed in Spain. Google News pulled out and people stopped visiting Spanish news sites, they didn't flock back to purchasing subscriptions and physical newspapers.