I was curious how link taxes panned out in other places they were tried and found this: https://www.techdirt.com/2021/06/21/as-predicted-smaller-media-outlets-a

I was curious how link taxes panned out in other places they were tried and found this: https://www.techdirt.com/2021/06/21/as-predicted-smaller-media-outlets-are-getting-screwed-australias-link-tax/ https://www.techdirt.com/2021/06/21/as-predicted-smaller-med... I honestly figured it would not even help the big sites - users would have to start deliberately going to those sites directly without first arriving there through an aggregator/search. Apparently that’s incorrect for major news organizations though still true for smaller ones (which I guess have not enough brand awareness for users to directly go to the site). I guess as it long as link taxes appear beneficial for major news organizations that can afford to lobby for them, we can sadly expect this to happen in more and more countries. IANAL but I understand that most Anglosphere countries outside the US have very different interpretations/not as strong guarantees of freedom of expression as in the US and some other Western countries. In countries with stronger protections I can’t imagine a link tax having legs. Given that a link itself is not IP/content (I think), what would be the legal basis for displaying it on a website requiring compensation to the linked site? Though I suppose there is some precedent for requiring link removal from eg Google through DMCA, it seems different because in that case it’s driving traffic to “stolen” content.