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It will be interesting to see how this whole thing will play out. Google and Facebook are major players and easy targets. But will the government and companies
by zerof1l 6y ago
It will be interesting to see how this whole thing will play out. Google and Facebook are major players and easy targets. But will the government and companies go after every single search engine like DDG?
Will there be "pirate" news search engines? Like for torrents.
I don't believe that every single news website in Australia agrees with this law. Some would want to be listed in the search results without getting money. Will there be an opt-in?
- oneweekwonder 6y ago> Will there be an opt-in? There is a opt-out[0]. But "the protocol is purely advisory and relies on the compliance of the web robot" so maybe laws is needed to punish crawlers not following the exclusion standard? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard
- jsnell 6y ago> Will there be an opt-in? There can't be. The way the law is written, if Google and Facebook serve any news links in Australia, even from non-Australian sites, Murdoch gets to shake them for unbounded amounts of money.