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.
Teachers pay taxes.
Nurses pay taxes.
Bus drivers pay taxes.
You pay taxes.
The Mormon church is a real estate holding company with a Political Action Committees as a hobby.
Tax them.
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Gloria Walton to showcase how stories told by the frontline communities yield greater impact for social and climate action. Thank you again to the #TIME team. Read the full piece below.
Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:
https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight
Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3
and
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643817
There are analogous solutions for another public good in private hands: journals. There are even levers the scholarly community could pull to incentivize an analogous migration:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634
What are we waiting for?