Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news
by ZekeSulastin on Friday July 31, 2020 @10:24AM
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Wouldn't the competitors then have to do the same thing though, thereby reducing the incentive to compete?
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Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news
by rydre on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:14AM
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It would bring up opportunity for alternative models for news instead of being tied to search/feed.
Re:Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news
by vorpalhex on Friday July 31, 2020 @12:10PM
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There's nothing preventing the news from alternative models now. It just turns out employing a bunch of people to repost tweets isn't a profitable business and forcing other companies to pay them via the law doesn't work any better.