I like the sound of this. It's the only way Facebook etc are going to actually bow to pressure.<p>The same tactics should be employed by governments.
Bill proposals are considered off-topic for HN: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26185428" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26185428</a>
I still feel like legislators and publishers are massively overestimating the importance of "news"papers. Facebook just removed them all in aus, because what they add is very small compared to all the other stuff people come to FB or Google for. I don't need Fox, the NYT or CBS to reword government press releases thanks...
Freedom is pretty much gone these days ... The main issue is that companies now reversed the capital market. By providing services for free, the USERS became the product.
The news media corps are getting more desperate trying to push this narrative that tech companies have to pay them to advertise their articles.<p>With the public trust for media companies at all time low, this certainly isn’t helping.
Yep, and this is why Facebook was so desperate to cut off Australians from the news. Pure self interest, they know that their reckoning is coming and they were trying to head it off at the pass.