> <i>"the link tax" (users are banned from linking to news stories unless the site they're linking to has sold a "linking license" to the platform the users are on</i><p>What the actual f...? Is this real life or an Onion article? Does anyone have any sense of how likely it is that this would actually pass? Do EU lawmakers know what a hyperlink actually is?<p>To think, in my day the measure of success on the web was getting <i>more</i> people to link to your content...
It's not an extinction level event because, like the humans which create it, technology is extremely adaptable to changing circumstance. We'll probably see TOR / mesh network like solutions to tyranny .
I don't get the hate for this. It mostly seems to be saying that if you publish stuff on the internet it's your responsibility to take reasonable steps to ensure that it's not stolen and that you actually have the right to publish it.<p>This seems entirely reasonable to me.