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> Having the opposite effect where there is less traffic going to these media sites, and will have a big impact on their bottom line from their innability to ru
by chaostheory 3y ago
> Having the opposite effect where there is less traffic going to these media sites, and will have a big impact on their bottom line from their innability to run ads on their own domains and make revenue that way.
I think this happened to France early on. What they did was to force Google to pay no matter what. Optically, it looks like extortion and protectionist laws for incumbents too big to fail.
I’m not sure Canada can go that route though since they probably care about their relationship with the US unlike France.
- xvector 3y agoI really want to see tech companies pull out of France and watch it collapse technologically overnight because of this. Ridiculous that the government can get away with acting like this.
- nonethewiser 3y agoI can’t find that anywhere. I see google was fined for not compensating publishers. But not that google blocked news or whatever in France and still owed publishers something.
- xvector 3y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/business/media/google-france-news-content-fine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/13/business/media/google-fra... After Google decided to block all news, the French government accused them of "not operating in good faith."