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> If news companies don't want people accessing their content through the web, shouldn't they simply take down their web sites? That's clearly not the issue. T
by ipcress_file 4y ago
> If news companies don't want people accessing their content through the web, shouldn't they simply take down their web sites?
That's clearly not the issue. The news companies obviously do want people to access their sites over the web and pay for the privilege. This argument is both incorrect and disingenuous.
The problem is that search and social media companies have been permitted to appropriate and monetize other people's content in different ways. They're parasitic. I don't think that links are really the problem and I'm not surprised that the Liberals have missed the forest for the trees. They do that. The real issue is providing the significant part of the content without requiring people to go to the actual site.
- Manuel_D 4y ago> The problem is that search and social media companies have been permitted to appropriate and monetize other people's content in different ways. They're parasitic. By this logic, Facebook, Google et.al. dropping links to these news outlets would help these companies. Furthermore, they can already opt out of being crawled through their robots.txt file. But of course, this logic is total BS which is why they don't opt of being indexed.