Dan GillmorJun 2, 2023

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.

Show threadder.hans
@dangillmor is it for linking or for embedding the content?
Jun 3, 2023 at 4:03amWeb
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 ...