IcySharkJun 1, 2023

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.

Meta threatens to pull news from its apps in California

History suggests that it's not an empty threat.

Axios
Show threadOrangestar 
@IcyShark Context for this?
Jun 1, 2023 at 5:52pmWeb
Show threadIcySharkJun 1, 2023
@orangestar sorry, context beyond the article?
Show threadOrangestar Jun 2, 2023
@IcyShark Oh, was the link what you were referring to with regards to "paying to host links"? I think the article is talking more about news posts that are like, entire threads being reposted onto Facebook and Instagram (which news sites do because it increases engagement even though it decreases click throughput.)
Show threadIcySharkJun 2, 2023
@orangestar that actually makes a lot more sense, but it still seems wrong for a platform to have to pay me because I post something on it.