> 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 parasi

> 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.