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Who's banning linking? The new law tried to get tech companies to pay to show the links with previews (similar to Australia and France, etc). To be clear, the
by mattstir 3y ago
Who's banning linking? The new law tried to get tech companies to pay to show the links with previews (similar to Australia and France, etc).
To be clear, the bill is fundamentally broken. It would require Google or Facebook to pay simply when links to news sites are served, rather than for reproducing or condensing the material in the news article as a "preview" sort of be thing (as in other countries). The bill isn't banning links explicitly, but the government should have seen this coming.
- dwaite 3y ago> The bill isn't banning links explicitly, but the government should have seen this coming. Perhaps they could have listened when the two companies they are trying to impose this on provide suggestions - or maybe modeled it more closely after legislation in other countries where such media taxes have been successful.