Google News was closed in Spain between 2014 and 2021[1] because our conservative government ~of blithering idiots~ decided it would be a good idea to change co

Google News was closed in Spain between 2014 and 2021[1] because our conservative government ~of blithering idiots~ decided it would be a good idea to change copyright law and force companies like Google to have to pay AEDE (Spanish Diary Editor Association) for linking to articles of members of that organisation. And it wasn't until the EU Copyright Directive was transposed to Spain that we were able to use Google News again. [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/3/22761041/google-news-relaunch-spain-payments-publishers-eu-copyright-directive https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/3/22761041/google-news-rela...