Being forced to pay to host a link is just not how the internet should or does work.
For example, this (https://www.axios.com/2023/06/01/meta-california-pull-news-threat) article talks about and links to Google and Meta, so it should have to pay them with this logic.
@IcyShark What am I missing here?
Everything I've read, including the article you linked, says this is about hosting content - not hosting links to content.
If they are hosting the content, that they didnt create, and profiting from it...then the content author/owner should be the one to profit/control. Big tech's approach to stealing content to keep you within their walled garden needs to be reined in.
@eriksz is it really just about re-hosted content? If so, it is much more reasonable than I understood it to be.
I see that in the Meta space, but Google just links to news outlets.
@IcyShark that's my understanding, yes
Otherwise, as you pointed out, you'd pretty much break the internet if you couldn't link to things...
Facebook parent Meta Platforms <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/META.O" target="_blank">(META.O)</a> said on Wednesday it would remove news content in its home state of California if the state government passed legislation forcing tech companies to pay publishers.
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