Something similar happened in Spain in 2014, when a local law would have forced Google to pay for linking or using abstracts. They shut down Google News. https

Something similar happened in Spain in 2014, when a local law would have forced Google to pay for linking or using abstracts. They shut down Google News. https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2014/dec/12/google-news-spain-tax-withdraws https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2014/dec/12/google... It remained closed until 2022 when the law was changed and newspapers were allowed to negotiate directly with Google individually. https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-news-re-opens-spain-after-eight-year-shutdown-2022-06-22/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-news-re-opens-spai...