> Charging for links had to be the single most destructive piece of tech legislation ever conceived in a 'free' democratic country. It depends what you mean by

> Charging for links had to be the single most destructive piece of tech legislation ever conceived in a 'free' democratic country. It depends what you mean by free. Australians have an "implied right to political communication", but it's not the same as "free speech" in the U.S. It would have been an interesting case to determine whether sharing news links on private servers (FB & Googs) was a constitutional right.