Dan Gillmor

California's "Journalism Preservation Act" is nothing more than a link tax on technology companies, thoroughly dishonest extortion on behalf of a news business that is more and more controlled by financial manipulators who'll profit from their sleaze.

Newsom should veto, but he won't.

If the tech companies stop linking to California journalism, don't blame them.

Jun 2, 2023 at 11:37pmWeb
Show threadder.hansJun 3, 2023
@dangillmor is it for linking or for embedding the content?
Show threadDan GillmorJun 3, 2023
@lufthans Linking with headlines, essentially.
Show threadder.hansJun 3, 2023

@dangillmor I avoid the companies that this is ostensibly aimed at, but I do link to articles providing headlines and often some quotes from the linked article

Well, I often avoid the actual article headlines because those often seem to have been written in a drunken stupor while reading a different article ...

Show threadJan EdenJun 3, 2023
@dangillmor Worked great in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_publishers
Ancillary copyright for press publishers - Wikipedia

Show threadkomrade@mastodon ~ %Jun 3, 2023
@dangillmor social media companies should not be using news content they did not produce to drive traffic without paying for it. This is simple.
Show threadarconciJun 5, 2023
@dangillmor @mmasnick Bill C-18, authored by Canada’s governing party, is asking California to hold its beer.
Show threadProtectiveHenJun 7, 2023
@dangillmor In the beginning, before craigslist and amazon, the media sector was actually profitable, and there were certain standards and a culture that tried to uphold them. Once tech took away the news sector's ad revenue & the sector idiotically gave its stuff away free to tech, the bottom fell out & the private equity vultures swooped in to eat up the remains. Anything that forces tech behemoths to pay the news sector for its products seems a long-range benefit from my POV.