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Just need the US and EU to follow suit now and the giants can get back to paying for what they use!
by jimnotgym 3y ago
Just need the US and EU to follow suit now and the giants can get back to paying for what they use!
- alphanullmeric 3y agoWhat are they using?
- thorncorona 3y agoProbably cocaine. By the looks of it.
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- scarface_74 3y agoAnd in Australia it was pushed by Rupert Murdoch. But fair is fair. If publishers want to force social media to pay for news content. Social Media has every right to refuse to pay and refuse to redistribute.
- JoshTriplett 3y ago> Social Media has every right to refuse to pay and refuse to redistribute. Unfortunately Brazil is trying to take that right away, too. Hopefully they fail at doing so.
- jupp0r 3y agoWhat leverage do they have? Companies can always pull out of the country entirely.
- tradewinds 3y agoWell, the leverage is that some profit is better than no profit, in theory.
- JoshTriplett 3y agoAssuming that you don't then become locked into mandatory "agreements" (and I use the term loosely given the inability to refuse) with rates that keep going up. Leaving aside that sometimes the principle outweighs the profits; a link tax, or any other restriction on linking, is an abhorrent constraint on the Internet.
- scarface_74 3y agoIf FB and Google both leave Brazil, it will put pressure on the lawmakers to rescind the law.
- tradewinds 3y agoYep true, it's a game of chicken really. This is probably what will happen in Canada anyway