I think they’re setting up to negotiate not paying. I don’t think people should depend on Google to provide a social good at their cost
I think they’re setting up to negotiate not paying. I don’t think people should depend on Google to provide a social good at their cost
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The problem is that society has transitioned to a point where most people essentially go to Google and Facebook for all their information. Given the monopolistic power of such platforms on public opinion, there is a very strong societal interest to ensure that actual news, not merely the propaganda of the highest bidder, is what people have access to.
The responsibility of Google to pay for it can be argued, but as real reporting will always cost more to produce than AI slop pushed by propagandists, there is arguably a public interest in that as well.
raef@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t know. I go to news portals or aggregates or feeds for news. Do people actually just type “news” into Google? I suppose for specific events, but I could actually see it being true that news searches weren’t making up much of the activity. The way it’s going to be is subscription based or publicly funded for anything worthwhile