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They were talking about negotiations with news publishers for revenue-sharing (i.e. legalized racketeering). I hope they don’t cave disgracefully like in Austr
by fmajid 5y ago
They were talking about negotiations with news publishers for revenue-sharing (i.e. legalized racketeering).
I hope they don’t cave disgracefully like in Australia and just shut down Google News and remove news sites from the search index in France as they did in Belgium a few years back IIRC. I am a Frenchman and very skeptical of Google, for the record, but rent-seeking by failed businesses should not be condoned, like the copyright levy charged on data storage devices here.
- tpush 5y ago> [...] just shut down Google News and remove news sites from the search index in France [...] AFAIU the French regulators decreed that Google can't not link, either [0]. It's quite a paradox: Google needs to pay to show snippets or even just linking to French (EU) news sites, but can't not show snippets/link either. [0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/french-regulator-says-google-must-pay-news-sites-to-send-them-traffic https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/french-regulator...
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