It should never be illegal to link to a thing. To host illegal content, sure, that should be illegal. But making it illegal to say where some illegal thing is located is asking for all kinds of trouble.
Google avoids “link tax” bill with deal to fund California journalism and AI
Submitted 2 months ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
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beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Exactly. Knowing where to buy drugs should never be illegal, nor should telling others about it. The illegal action is buying, selling, or posessing a controlled substance.
Now, knowing where to find something illegal could indicate that you have done or plan to do something illegal, but it is not proof of guilt in itself.
Linking to any form of content should be protected speech. Full stop.
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It would help if the politicians entertaining these ideas knew the difference between a link and a complete summarization of the article or content on a secondary unaffiliated website.
Websites survive by generating traffic, links to these site help increase traffic, the increase in traffic means higher ad revenues. News agencies wanting to double dip is only hurting theselves.
News agencie, you can’t have your cake and eat it.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 months ago
Yeah, good luck with that. In Australia they stopped paying and now the media organisations that relied on this income are pretty much stuffed.
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I can’t find the link, but I read that some Canadian news organizations were using URL shorteners to post their own news to Facebook to get around the block.
tabular@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Since Google is making money of everyone how about they partake in funding everyone via a universal basic income. Just a thought.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Fuck monopolies, but the entire premise of a link tax completely breaks the internet.