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> Isn't Facebook allowed to go, sorry, I don't like that price? It really depends on the laws involved. If the government decides Facebook accepting certain te
by kayodelycaon 3y ago
> Isn't Facebook allowed to go, sorry, I don't like that price?
It really depends on the laws involved. If the government decides Facebook accepting certain terms is the cost of business, then Facebook doesn't get a say in it. Kind of like taxes. If you want to operate in a country, you're taxed accordingly. In general, you don't get to not pay a tax just because you don't want to.
Basically, if the law allows, they can. Reasonability doesn't have a lot to do with things at the upper levels of government.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Kind of like taxes A tax to fund a newspaper subsidy would make sense. This isn't a tax. It's mandated commerce. We usually restrict that for protecting protected classes.
- ecshafer 3y agoThis isn't a tax though. This is mandating that company A sell company B's product, and also pay a set price, which may or may not be a fair price. Should a company be willing to happily go out of business because they are not allowed to sell at a fair market price? This is actually a step further into absurdity since Facebook is not selling news articles, they are merely linking them. Its the equivalent of the Government telling me I need to pay Nike $5 every time I say the word Nike to someone.