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.
Publishers that don't want their websites showing up in Google searches can already add a noindex to their metadata (or robots.txt for us amateurs) Presumably Meta could honor that too. Add a nofollow to go nuclear.
Where I draw the line is the current trend to provide "answers" instead of just links, pushing publishers further down and off the first page or two. This is antithetical to responsible search.
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