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Lest we forget another item missing from the list: they want to be paid when you link to them! [0] https://ccianet.org/advocacy/link-taxes/ https://ccianet.org
by akersten 11mo ago
Lest we forget another item missing from the list: they want to be paid when you link to them!
[0] https://ccianet.org/advocacy/link-taxes/ https://ccianet.org/advocacy/link-taxes/
- sothatsit 11mo agoI despise these laws! Australia made Google pay the big news websites for linking to them, which is just insane to me. It inevitably favours the big news providers that can negotiate directly with Google, and the laws even stop tech companies from just removing the news companies from their search results as well. It very much feels like taking from one big company to prop up other big companies... Who benefits again?!
- graemep 11mo ago> It inevitably favours the big news providers that can negotiate directly with Google, That is a feature, not a bug. > It very much feels like taking from one big company to prop up other big companies... Who benefits again? The big news companies, who tend to support the political status quo. The parties big enough to get into government are very cosy with them (not in Australia in particular, in most places). > and the laws even stop tech companies from just removing the news companies from their search results as well. Does that apply to all search engines? In that case it creates a barrier to entry by by making it harder for smaller competitors to emerge, so it favours Google.