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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by Scarblac on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @10:01AM (#17355382)
If a single publisher chooses to do that, they only hurt themselves, Google is far too big.

If it's forced for all publishers, it might actually have an effect.

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Re:European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrou... by stvswn on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:39PM (#17356959)
Then why pass a law? If what you say is true, the publishers could enter alliances with each other and block Google with robots.txt until Google agrees to pay. I believe the answer is that some MEPs don't really care if it "works" or not, because they can blame Google when Google blocks traffic. They want to be seen as standing up to American tech companies.
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