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> This was my interpretation of attaching the concept of 'publisher' to Google in relation to the recent-ish "news" aggregation debacle whereby Google and Faceb
by nl 4y ago
> This was my interpretation of attaching the concept of 'publisher' to Google in relation to the recent-ish "news" aggregation debacle whereby Google and Facebook were eventually made to pay news companies for linking to their articles in an oh-so-obviously punitive pursuit by the Australian Government of the day protecting their, umm, "political campaign contributors".
Sure, but that's a very different issue to this one.
The wacky "make big tech pay" thing is dumb populism but appears pretty unrelated.
- BLKNSLVR 4y agoI think you're right, but the terminology 'publisher' joins the two together in my mind.
- marcus_holmes 4y agoActually I think you're right. There is no technical understanding of any of this in the minds of the people making these decisions. The distinction between republishing via AMP and linking takes longer than 5 seconds to explain, so will be ignored by everyone involved. Google & Facebook were being attacked (at the behest of Murdoch) on multiple fronts. This was one of them, the news mess was another. I think (again, personal opinion, ignore at will) that this is the last remnants of that broohaha being put to rest.