I'm definitely not a fan of Google, in fact I've gone through quite some pain to de-google my whole life. That said, the proposed Australian law is nothing shor

I'm definitely not a fan of Google, in fact I've gone through quite some pain to de-google my whole life. That said, the proposed Australian law is nothing short of laughable. Not only are they requiring Google to pay the news orgs they link to, it also seems that Google couldn't decide to just not link to these orgs. If the orgs are not a fan of Google showing links to their website they can just forbid Google via robots.txt. This option has been available for decades. When I first read about this I was convinced I had to be completely misunderstanding the proposed law, but no it turns out it is in fact that stupid. I guess I shouldn't be surpised, Australia doesn't have a particularly good track record on regulating the internet after all Of course Bloomberg, a news org, would publish an opinion piece titled "Google’s Going to Regret Its Australia Search Threat"