Comment

Comment on Canada says Google will pay $74 million annually to Canadian news industry under new online law

Free linking is essential for the open web. You can link to anything at no cost. That’s especially important here too; no free linking, no Lemmy. Link taxes are hostile to that, and that’s exactly what this is. It might be good for journalism - though it’s probably just the big players that are going to seriously benefit - but it’s a bad precedent.

source

Sort:hotnew top

DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As I replied to the other commenter:

If it were just a link then there wouldn’t be any problem. Users would follow the link to the publisher’s web site. I think the problem is that facebook et al scrape the content and show cards and summaries and then user’s don’t visit the publisher’s web site. They’re getting paid for their content, for being linked.

source