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This is going to be a tough one. On one hand I absolutely hate how google is trying to strongarm this deal through their various properties. On the other hand,
by shash7 6y ago
This is going to be a tough one.
On one hand I absolutely hate how google is trying to strongarm this deal through their various properties. On the other hand, google pulling out of Australia will definitely impact a lot of businesses badly.
- nness 6y agoIts more of a case of Australia trying to strong-arm Google and Facebook to protect their News Corp interests (but I imagine that this is all a matter of perspective).
- Bakary 6y agoGoogle and Facebook are so powerful that it makes sense to err on the side of anything that could decrease their reach.
- graeme 6y agoIf the australian law applied to the web broadly, hacker news would have to pay for all the links. In reality, being linked to on the web is extremely valuable. Google has had to ban the practices of sites paying to be linked to. The Australian law completely gets the value chain backwards, forcing tech companies to pay for a specific subset of links, and not allowing them to decline to link either.