You're right, but this law does a terrible job of tackling that problem. It only affects links, not the headline/description/picture blurb. A plain text link w

You're right, but this law does a terrible job of tackling that problem. It only affects links, not the headline/description/picture blurb. A plain text link would cost FB money, while a headline/description/picture with no link would cost FB nothing. And presumably FB would only block link-sharing if doing so was a net positive for them. This implementation is based off fundamentally backwards understandings of the flow of value on the web. The appropriate implementation of this would just be a straight-up corporate tax of social media companies and an accompanying subsidy of news orgs, not this weird linking nonsense.