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Re:Response to Google open letter by threeseed on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:38AM (#24185896)
> How about we simply ban Google and Facebook from reproducing news on their own site?

You can. Just add the robots.txt to the website.

But the news sites need Facebook/Google more than the other way around.

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Re:Response to Google open letter by RVuRnvbM2e on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:42AM (#24185911)
> But the news sites need Facebook/Google more than the other way around.

This is oft-quoted, but the media organisations seemed to be doing better before Google/Facebook became the middle-man siphoning off advertising revenue.

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Re:Response to Google open letter by Ivoirians on Monday August 17, 2020 @07:09AM (#24186071)
User behavior has changed. Look what happened when a similar law was passed in Spain. Google News pulled out and people stopped visiting Spanish news sites, they didn't flock back to purchasing subscriptions and physical newspapers.
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