Isn't this going to play out exactly like it did in Canada and Facebook where Facebook doesn't link to Canadian news sources and everyone is annoyed?<p>I always saw social media as an effective distribution mechanism for media. If your content is disposable or replaceable, so you're not benefitting from the traffic, that seems like an issue with the publication, not the social media platform.<p>X already offers compensation for accounts with a lot of engagement, which was something that was not offered until recently. So I'm not sure why newspapers can't benefit from that, and it would be on the same playing field as everyone else. But my guess is they want a special deal where there's none to be made, which will lead to X just blocking the content.<p>On a related note, it would be good if we had a word for a 'cookie banner' type result, which could be defined as an unanticipated result that's objectively worse for everyone involved.