> Senate Bill 1327 would tax Amazon, Meta and Google for the data they collect from users and pump the money from this “data extraction mitigation fee” into news organizations by giving them a tax credit for employing full-time journalists.<p>This excuse making gets quite tiring. If the data collection bad practice, outlaw it.<p>There isn't one side that's the villain here. News companies do exactly the same sort of data collection to help support their ad business.